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Anne Tyler Quotes

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 25, 1941

Topics

Life Good Me Celebrate Mystery Up

I have broken a lot of stories.

Broken Stories Lot

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

Past People You Look Back Get

I've always thrived on challenges, both personally and professionally.

Challenges Always Both Personally

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Family Justice People Strong Always

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

Smile People Me Win Think Lord

I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself.

Myself Deer Hunter Cut

I first paid attention to fashion when I was around 15, but I don't really care much about it these days.

Fashion Care Attention First Days

'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only this film for Asians and that film for African Americans - it's so binary. I don't think it's like that at all. There should be and will be many films and many stories. Hopefully this just opens the floodgates.

Crazy Black Rich Think Feel Will

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

Robert Doisneau

End You Three Two Up Eternity

The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.

Enough Trouble Know Human Just Too

What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc.

Colleagues Down Labor Understand

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

Life Great You Secrets Drama Know

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