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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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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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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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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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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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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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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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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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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 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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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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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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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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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
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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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