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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
Person
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Smells
Pictures
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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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 imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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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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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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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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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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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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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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