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You should not have assault rifles in your home.

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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