Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a … - Ann Patchett

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I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

Ann Patchett

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Fluffy, Pieces, Say, Teenager, Two, Writing

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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.

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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.

Kissing, Love, Pull, Rightfully, Succumbing, Two

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Facts, Life, Nearly, Stories, This Life

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

Interest, Interests, Know, Knows, Police, Written

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

Concerned, Language, Shy

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I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

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Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity. '

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A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense. . . . [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

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