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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Simple
Write
Writing
Life
Wider
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Selection
Plain
Greed

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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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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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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 read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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