We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all. - Anne Tyler
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
- Anne Tyler
I'm falling into disrepair - Anne Tyler
I'm falling into disrepair
Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living? - Anne Tyler
Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. - Anne Tyler
I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad. - Anne Tyler
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all. - Anne Tyler
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son. - Anne Tyler
...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it. - Anne Tyler
View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all. - Anne Tyler
But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
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