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

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, You have no need for sight. Listen.
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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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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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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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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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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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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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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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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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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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