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I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

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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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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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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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