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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Beings
Dying
Thing
Bravest
People
Mortal
Mortals
Findings
Finding
Loving

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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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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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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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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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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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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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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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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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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
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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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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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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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