Ann Packer Quotes

#1. If it was your fault, then you weren't powerless
you weren't at the mercy of stuff just happening."
"Your always going to be at thee mercy of stuff just happening, no matter what.

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#2. Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them

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#3. The hard thing for me is to say no to people.

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#4. It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it - gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

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#5. Yes, I do sew. I started when I was around 8 or 9 and have been doing it off and on since then.

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#6. I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.

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#7. I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought.

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#8. Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.

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#9. Matrimony, he began to think, was a cure for an illness he hadn't known he had.

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#10. I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.

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#11. How Much Do We Owe People We Love?

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#12. right? But no. Don't hitchhike, the driver

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#13. You know what 'congregate' means? It's from the Latin. 'Greg' means herd. 'Con' means with. We're with our herd.

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#14. A broken heart can masquerade as a cold one.

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#15. How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the fact that we can't necessarily give the people we love what they need?

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#16. Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.

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#17. Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

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#18. Bill supposed that for every child there was a defining age, a fixed reference point in relation to which his parents would always view him; whereas the child's own truest self would always be the present one.

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#19. She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win.
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