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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Awful
Beings
Human
Humans
Work
Struck
Dealing

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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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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 forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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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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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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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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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
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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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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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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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How plotless real life was!
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