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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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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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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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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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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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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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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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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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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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