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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Quite
Chance
Never
Believed

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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')
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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin
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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details any good lie does.
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He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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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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...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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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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She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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