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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Life
Altogether
Parties
Avoid
Paper
Literature
Party
Best
Real
Mingle

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He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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My stories are never quite good enough
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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong they pass each other and keep running.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
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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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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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