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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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Novelist
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LA
California
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Responsible
Persons
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Every
Life

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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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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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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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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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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 people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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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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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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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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I am a totally public person.
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No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
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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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