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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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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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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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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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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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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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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
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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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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. 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.
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