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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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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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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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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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