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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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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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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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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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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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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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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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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
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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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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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