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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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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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Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.
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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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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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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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