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You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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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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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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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 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 think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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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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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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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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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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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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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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