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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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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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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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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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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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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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