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  1. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    Writing must not be compartmentalized. You don't step outside of the stream of your life to do your work. Work was the life. And who you were as a mother, a teacher, friend, citizen, activist, and artist was all the same person...People ask me if writing can be taught, and yes, I can teach you to write a better sentence, to construct dialogue, to develop a plot. But I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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  2. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    Clearly, we are not all ruined, and if we are, at some point it becomes our own responsibility.
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  3. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    What we were told repeatedly was to listen: God had a vocation for all of us and if we paid close attention and were true to ourselves we would know His intention.
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  4. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    I understood how we long to believe in goodness, especially in the person we promised to love and honor. It isn't just about them, it is how we want to see ourselves. It says that we are good people, patient and kind.
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  5. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.
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  6. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    I received a gift--it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my 25 years of live. "Does your husband make you a better person?
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  7. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    I was still in high school when I decided I didn't want children. My somewhat twisted rationale was that I would never inflict childhood on anybody, especially not someone I loved. I never changed my mind.
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  8. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    Part of what I love about novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive. It's not their responsibility to figure out where the rent is coming from.
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  9. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    The ability to have a friend, and to be a friend, is not unlike the ability to learn. Both are rooted in being accepting and open-minded with a talent for hard-work. If you are willing to stretch yourself, to risk yourself, if you are willing to love and honor and cherish the people who are important to you until one of you dies, then there will be great heartaches and even greater rewards."
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  10. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    I imagine there are people out there who got a dog when what they wanted was a baby, but I wonder if there aren't other people who had a baby when all they really needed was a dog.
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  11. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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  12. Ann Patchett _ This is the Story of a Happy

    Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world
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