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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.

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Survival
Promise
Disrupting
Courage
Surviving
Takes
Lifelong
Free
Endurance
Made
Breaking
World
Test
Tests

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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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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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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 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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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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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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