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

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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. – S. I. Hayakawa

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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. – Mason Cooley

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I dont know whether its age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. – John le Carre

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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. – Johnny Ball

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And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I cant think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure. – Harvey Korman

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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. – Thomas Paine

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