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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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