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I am a totally public person.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
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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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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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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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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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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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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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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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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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