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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Jesus
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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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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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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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I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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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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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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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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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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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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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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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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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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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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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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