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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know 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.
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But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong they pass each other and keep running.
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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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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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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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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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