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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
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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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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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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.
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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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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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