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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.

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Life
Whatever
True
Ends
May
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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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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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How plotless real life was!
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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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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 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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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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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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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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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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