Ann Patchett Quotes - Page 5

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• Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

  Ann Patchett

  Gun, Shots, Dangerous

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing. The man with the bread basket wanders from table to table, lonesome as a cloud. When he comes to me his basket is full and perfectly arranged. He gives me a smile of sincere pleasure when I tell him I will take both the sourdough roll and the cheese stick.

  Ann Patchett

  Food, Men, Clouds

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• Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

  Ann Patchett

  People, Needs, Attention

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

  Ann Patchett

  Lobster, Lasts, Sentimental

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

  Ann Patchett

  Fun, Magazines, Easy

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

  Ann Patchett

  Years, Looks, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

  Ann Patchett

  Right Time

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• [I remember going] to a hotel gym at six o'clock in the morning, and the television was on, and it's some drama in which two men have clearly kidnapped a woman. They're interrogating her, and they put a plastic bag over her head. They're suffocating her, and I'm thinking, It's six o'clock in the morning! Why does anybody need to see this? How can I find the off switch?

  Ann Patchett

  Morning, Drama, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love.

  Ann Patchett

  Opportunity, Tchaikovsky, True Life

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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

  Responsible, Responsible Person, Aspect

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Needs, Reader, Feels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Country, Gone, Nuance

  "Truth & Beauty: A Friendship". Book by Ann Patchett, www.sfgate.com. 2004.

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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!

  Ann Patchett

  Heart, Fate, Destiny

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• My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

  Ann Patchett

  Thinking, People, Novel

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Fiction, Pieces, Nonfiction

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

  Ann Patchett

  Generations, Definitions, Next

  Ann Patchett (2012). “Run”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.

  Ann Patchett

  Violence, Seeing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.

  Ann Patchett

  Belief, Share

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.

  Ann Patchett

  People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Crazy, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

  Ann Patchett

  Jobs, Responsible, Well Being

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Ann Patchett

  Hate, Book, I Hate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  School, Community, Clubs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Light, Sight, Needs

  Ann Patchett (2009). “Bel Canto”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Political, Busy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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