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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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