Quote by Anne Tyler
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

Other quotes by Anne Tyler

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. – Anne Tyler

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Marriage
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think were the greatest hunters on earth! – Anne Tyler

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amazing
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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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Other Quotes from
Family
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I really appreciate family. I really cant imagine life without them! – Ice Cube

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Family

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. – Ayelet Waldman

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Family

The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. Ive always felt like this could be better. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Family

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways its better, and in a lot of ways its worse. Thats life, right? – Katherine Heigl

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Family

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Deliberation. The act of examining ones bread to determine which side it is buttered on. – Ambrose Bierce

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Reflection

Ive done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before. – Frank Luntz

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Politics

When you start treating people like people, they become people. – Paul Vitale

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Wise Words

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. – William Wordsworth

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Age