Ann Patchett
speaker
431 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Ann Patchett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I know plenty of nice people.
You know plenty of nice people.
Why do we take the darkest parts of our nature to be somehow more credible and true?
And I don't believe that.
I believe in what I see and what I see in my life, in my bookstore, my house, my neighbor.
neighborhood, the people that I interact with.
If I'm in the airport, if I'm in a restaurant, I just see people by and large being really kind to one another.
Now, granted, these are the eyes that I have in my head, and I looked at the world through my eyes, and I am by my nature a positive, cheerful person, and I have been ever since I was a child.
No virtue in that whatsoever.
I was born this way.
And if you have a cheerful, sunny affect, people tend to meet you in a cheerful, sunny way.
I believe it.
I would say it neither delights me nor bothers me, but I think it's true.
When I was looking at colleges, I had gone to a Catholic girls' school for twelve years and uh we did not have a guidance counselor and m my parents weren't particularly interested in my going to college.
I mean, they wanted me to go to college, but
It was not a group activity.
It was just something that I was gonna figure out and I didn't know what I was doing.
And the schools that I applied to were just wildly random because I didn't have any idea what I was doing.
And one of the schools I applied to
was Alfred in New York.
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