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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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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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... everyone must play his role.
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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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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.
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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 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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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.
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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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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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My stories are never quite good enough
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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