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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
Findings
Finding
Loving
Beings
Dying
Thing
Bravest
People
Mortal
Mortals

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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
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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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