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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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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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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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I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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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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No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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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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