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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
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Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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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 since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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I spend about a year between novels
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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
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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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