Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected. Ann Patchett More Quotes by Ann Patchett More Quotes From Ann Patchett It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it. Ann Patchett right-time We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs. Ann Patchett belief share You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature. Ann Patchett knows thinking 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. Ann Patchett sleep writing two People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappointment them, or, if they do, the owners manages to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me. Ann Patchett disappointment acceptance dog Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves. Ann Patchett people 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. Ann Patchett want believe way The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen. Ann Patchett light sight needs Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano. Ann Patchett sopranos outcomes would-be If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters. Ann Patchett crazy reading art The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive. Ann Patchett voice ideas moving Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll even sleep in the same room. You'll have time to waste on each other. You'll find out every single thing you have in common and still have time to catalogue all of your differences. Don't underestimate the vital necessity of friendship in your life because it is the thing that will sustain you later, when there will be considerably less time. Ann Patchett differences together sleep He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love. Ann Patchett tchaikovsky true-life opportunity This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this. Ann Patchett well-being responsible jobs The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth. Ann Patchett nails earth love-is You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them. Ann Patchett jumping-in jumping rivers He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more. Ann Patchett should-have night thinking Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself. Ann Patchett want writing book 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. Ann Patchett teenager writing two 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 afternoon sleep america
