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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
Smells
Pictures
Smell
Bring
Persons
Back
Person
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Clearer

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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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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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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at
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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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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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I'm falling into disrepair
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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'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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He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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