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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. – Anne Tyler

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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 dont want to think of the writer. – Anne Tyler

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Hope
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. – Anne Tyler

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Morning
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine – what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age. – Anne Tyler

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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but Im there trying to do it. – Yoko Ono

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If you see a black family, its looting, but if its a white family they are looking for food. – Kanye West

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I dont think anyone has a normal family. – Edward Furlong

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If you share a common ancestor with somebody, youre related to them. It doesnt mean that youre going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think its fascinating. – Henry Louis Gates

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