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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
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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 love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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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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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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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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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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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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