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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
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Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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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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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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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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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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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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... everyone must play his role.
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.
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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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