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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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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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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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