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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
Ann Patchett
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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December 2, 1963
(age 61)
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