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28 Anne Tyler Quotes & Sayings
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28 Anne Tyler Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 25 October 1941. |
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
Anne Tyler
I read
Can live
One life
One place
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
Anne Tyler
Beginning
Think
How much
Love someone
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler
Very difficult
Live
Among people
You love
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
Anne Tyler
Never
Believed
One chance
I get
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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.
Anne Tyler
Sad thing
This world
The acts
Take
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People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler
People
Always call
Luck
Acted
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
Anne Tyler
A woman
Who discovered
Had turned wrong person
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
Anne Tyler
Struck her
Dealing
Human beings
Awful lot
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
Anne Tyler
Have children
You're obligated
To live
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
Anne Tyler
He wished
Inhabited
Life
Better
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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.
Anne Tyler
Bravest thing
About people
Loving
Mortal beings
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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
Anne Tyler
You never
Did anything
Couldn't undo
End up
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
Anne Tyler
True life
End up
Just do
The best
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But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories,all that they take away with them.
Anne Tyler
On occasion
Our memories
Loved ones
The point
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
Anne Tyler
Very thing
Attracts you
Someone
Putting
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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.
Anne Tyler
No couple
Buying wedding rings
Be reminded
To accept
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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
Anne Tyler
She thought
A clean
Simple life
Have led
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It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it’s all going to end.
Anne Tyler
It make
You wonder
Bother accumulating
We know
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
Anne Tyler
I write
Want to
Have more
One life
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She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby.
Anne Tyler
She collected
Polished resentments
Some kind
Hobby
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life
Anne Tyler
Was born
The impression
What happened
In books
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Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
Anne Tyler
Etiquette book
Runaway wives
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Past is past,no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.
Anne Tyler
Past
People
Always fond
Saying that
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Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed.
Anne Tyler
Apparently
You grow
To love
Handed
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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.
Anne Tyler
Was born
The impression
What happened
In books
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Sometimes he fantasied that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.
Anne Tyler
Sometimes
Fantasied
The end
His life
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Anne Tyler
Forget
The past
Tend to
Regret
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The trouble with dying is you don't get to stay around and see how everything turns out.
Anne Tyler
The trouble
With dying
Is you
How everything
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