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Oh, it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son — did I tell you that when you were young?

Anne Tyler

I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes — learning how to close the door on it when ordinary life intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again — that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.

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