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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
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Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
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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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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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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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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
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She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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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 didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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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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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.
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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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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
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