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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
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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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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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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 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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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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