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“it always annoyed him when people implied you had to have a religion in order to hold to any standards of behavior.” quote by Anne Tyler — Download Open image

““it always annoyed him when people implied you had to have a religion in order to hold to any standards of behavior.””

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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

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“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays.…

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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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