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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Men
Farmers
Sweat
Seeds
Fraction
Patient
Fractions
Week
Weeds
Days
Farming
Knowing
Vegetables
Come
Weed

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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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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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I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
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