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Ann Patchett Quotes: It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
         

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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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.



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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.



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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.



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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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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.



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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.



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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.





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