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... everyone must play his role.

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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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Everyone
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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details any good lie does.
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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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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 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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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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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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 expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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