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

Other quotes by Anne Tyler

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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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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Family
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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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Age

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother? – Sydney J. Harris

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Age

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that cant leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age. – Diane Kruger

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Age

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now. – Magic Johnson

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Age

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I might do X Factor next year. Its looking good that I wont get the sack at Christmas. – Gary Barlow

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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in. – George Eliot

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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace – or at least a genuine peace – the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood. – Natan Sharansky

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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. – Bethenny Frankel

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