I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.
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.
- Anne Tyler
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.
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad. - Anne Tyler
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
...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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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