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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

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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Anne Tyler
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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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Age
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Anne Tyler
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My family can always tell when Im well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. – Anne Tyler

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Family
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Family
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I grew up in a Navy family. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Family

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. Thats what happiness is. – Michael J. Fox

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Family

I think thats become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then thats a noble project. – Sylvester Stallone

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Family

Im getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow. – Christina Ricci

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Family

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. – Jane Austen

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Selfishness

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. – Abraham Maslow

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Men

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white – its amazing that Im able to connect with so many different kinds of people. – Patti LaBelle

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amazing

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I dont think my mother had that opportunity to change. – Jeanne Moreau

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Age