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Anne Tyler quotes about she

American Novelist October 25, 1941

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Anne Tyler quote: "And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led..."
And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love. Anne Tyler
Reading is the first to go," my mother used to say, meaning that it was a luxury the brain dispensed with under duress. She claimed that after my father died she never again picked up anything more demanding than the morning paper. At the time I had thought that was sort of melodramatic of her, but now I found myself reading the same paragraph six times over, and I still couldn't have told you what it was about. Anne Tyler
Now look: Droplets of oil were dotted across the front of her best dress, over the mound of her stomach. She was clumsy and fat-stomached and she didn't even have the sense to wear an apron while she was cooking. Also she had paid way too much for this dress, sixty-four dollars at Hecht's, which would scandalize Ira if he knew. How could she have been so greedy? She dabbed at her nose with the back of her hand. Took a deep breath. Well. Anyhow. Anne Tyler
She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg, wife peg, side by side. Facing the road and not looking at each other; for why would they need to, really, having gone beyond the visible surface long ago. No hope of admiring gazes anymore, no chance of unremitting adoration. Nothing left to show but their plain, true, homely, interior selves, which were actually much richer anyhow. Anne Tyler
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? Anne Tyler
At this moment (letting a breeze ripple through her fingers like warm water), Maggie felt that the entire business of time's passing was more than she could bear. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told..."
Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth. 'What, cremation?' she asked. 'Death. Anne Tyler
She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view..."
She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had..."
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. Anne Tyler
She passed her New York Reviews on to Troy without giving them a glance; she told him she thought there was something perverted about book reviews that were longer than the books they were reviewing. Anne Tyler
When she went out to the kitchen, I knew she would be getting her Triscuits. That was what she had for her snack at the end of every workday: six Triscuits exactly, because six was the "serving size" listed on the box. She showed a slavish devotion to the concept of a recommended serving size.... Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "Either she was admirably at ease anywhere or she suffered from..."
Either she was admirably at ease anywhere or she suffered from a total lack of discrimination; Liam couldn't decide which. Anne Tyler

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