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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
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