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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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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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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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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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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 will write my way into another life.
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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 think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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