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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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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 have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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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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Learn to write by writing
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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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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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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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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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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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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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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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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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