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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

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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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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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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I am a totally public person.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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