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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Family
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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 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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I am, as Ive said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. – Billy Joel

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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. – Wilma Rudolph

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Age

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I dont think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. – Charles Kuralt

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Age

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. – Franklin Adams

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Age

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Ive never looked forward to a birthday like Im looking forward to my new daughters birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement. – Pete Rose

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