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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Falling
Fall
Disrepair

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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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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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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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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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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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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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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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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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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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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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