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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
Greed
Simple
Write
Writing
Life
Wider
Insist
Selection
Plain

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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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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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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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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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