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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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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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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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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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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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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, You have no need for sight. Listen.
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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
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