It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with …

Ann Patchett
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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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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right. ✨ Ann Patchett (2011). State of Wonder, p.216, Bloomsb … ▶
The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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I will write my way into another life. ✨ Ann Patchett (2004). Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

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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