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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

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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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