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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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