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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
Tests
Survival
Promise
Disrupting
Courage
Surviving
Takes
Lifelong
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Endurance
Made
Breaking
World
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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How plotless real life was!
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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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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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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