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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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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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