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Life Quotes by Anne Tyler
- None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often…
- 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
- In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
- I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
- I write because I want to have more than one life.
- How plotless real life was!
- I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll…
- It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
- I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
- I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the…
- He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
- 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…
- And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
- There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle