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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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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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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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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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