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the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.
Ann Beattie
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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
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Clichés so often befall vain people.
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I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
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What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
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I've spent my life supporting myself.
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Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.
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It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
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It's gratifying that it does I love to give readings.
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You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
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It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
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