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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I am a totally public person.
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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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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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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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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
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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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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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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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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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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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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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