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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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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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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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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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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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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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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.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
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