Ann Patchett Quotes - Page 4

• I am a totally public person.

  Ann Patchett

  Personas

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Humanity, Email, Opinion

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Forever, Littles, Remember

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• For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

  Ann Patchett

  Men, Knows, Fortunate

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• Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

  Ann Patchett

  Beautiful, Mother, Sleep

  Ann Patchett (2012). “Run”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

  Ann Patchett

  Love Is, Bird, Rebellious

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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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  Believe, Want, Way

  Ann Patchett (2011). “The Patron Saint of Liars”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Emotional, Two

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• It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.

  Ann Patchett

  Sleep, America, Afternoon

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.173, A&C Black

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Want Something, People, Telling The Truth

  Ann Patchett (2012). “State of Wonder”, p.382, A&C Black

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Dog, Baby, People

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• I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.

  Ann Patchett

  Niños, Crecer, Medio

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Country, Stories, Movement

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• I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.

  Ann Patchett

  Daughter, People, Tennis

  "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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• El sueco que conocía procedía sobre todo de las películas de Bergman. Lo había aprendido en la universidad, adaptando los subtítulos a los sonidos. En sueco sólo podía hablar de los temas más oscuros.

  Ann Patchett

  College, Matching, Sound

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• My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being "a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society."

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Thinking, Trying

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Reading, Mean, Important

  "Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Raj’ Ad: Where Do We Draw the Line?" by Eleni Gage, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.

  Ann Patchett

  Loneliness, Kissing, Air

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• Cuando sea emperador, aboliré la educación privada. Escuelas privadas, universidades privadas. Todos esos padres con dinero y energía y ganas de vender pasteles y de legar sus grandes fortunas a la educación tendrían que comer todos del mismo plato educativo.

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  Educational, School, College

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• Esa es una de las muchas cosas que adoro de tener una librería. Puedo entrar en la tienda y decirle a alguien: "Me alegro de que leas este libro" o "Me alegro de que compres este libro" o "No compres ese libro. Leí ese libro y lo odié. Vamos a comprarte este libro".

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Reading, Stores

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• Gracias a Dios, Roxane Coss no se había enamorado de uno de los rusos. Dudaba que pudieran subir las escaleras sin detenerse a fumar un cigarrillo y contar al menos una historia en voz alta que nadie pudiera entender.

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  Thank God, Stopping, Stories

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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.

  Ann Patchett

  Dos, Personas, Diferentes

  Entrevista con Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. 16 de agosto de 2016.

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• Yo no creo en el destino, como en, que yo - como católico, creo, una especie de predestinación. Pero ciertamente creo en el azar.

  Ann Patchett

  Creer, Destino, Pensar

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• I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.

  Ann Patchett

  Loyalty, Mother, Sibling

  Entrevista con Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. 16 de agosto de 2016.

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• I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

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  Character, People, Way

  Entrevista con Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. 16 de agosto de 2016.

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