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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
Sensibly
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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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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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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong they pass each other and keep running.
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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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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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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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... everyone must play his role.
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