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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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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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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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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.
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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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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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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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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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