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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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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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Learn to write by writing
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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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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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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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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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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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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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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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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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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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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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If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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