Monthly Archives: January 2012

ANN PATCHETT QUOTES FROM “WHAT NOW?”

Another perspective on what to do next.

“What now” is based on Ann’s lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College.

“It was for me the start of a lesson that I never stop having to learn: to pay attention to the things I’ll probably never need to know, to listen carefully to the people who look as if they have nothing to teach me, to see school as something that goes on everywhere, all the time, not just in libraries but in parking lots, in airports, in trees.”