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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Writer
LA
California
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Internet
Higher
Humanity
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Email
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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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 used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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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.
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