Quotes by Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

[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?

Drama

Men

Morning

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

Feelings

Moved

Singing

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

Gathering

Information

Letting Go

Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

Giving

Looks

Priests

Even though I didn’t know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

Book

Independent

Jobs

Everybody believes in chance.

Believe

Chance

Everyone knows everything eventually.

Knows

Fiction is always really a labor.

Fiction

Labor

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

Fortunate

Knows

Men

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.

Clouds

Food

Men

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America

Another Life

Attention

August

Beautiful

Belief

Believe

Best Work

Bird

Book

Busy

Chance

Changed

Character

Circumstances

Clouds

Clubs

College

Comfortable

Community

Compass

Complaining

Country

Courses

Cutting

Daughter

Disappointment

Discarded

Discovery

Divorced

Doe

Drama

Earth

Easy

Educational

Enough

Facts

Feelings

Fiction

Figures

Finding Yourself

Food

Fortunate

Fortune

Gathering

Giving

Gone

Goodness

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Quotes by Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

Even though I didn’t know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

Everybody believes in chance.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

Fiction is always really a labor.

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

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