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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
Ann Patchett
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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
Ann Patchett