Anne Tyler - People Quotes

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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

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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?

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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that other people will never know about.

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'People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead, it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.'

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They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

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Like most heavy people, she had long ago stopped expecting anything of her clothes.

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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.

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'He's not himself at all today,' Mr. Somerset told me. People say that about Jeremy quite often, but what they mean is that he is not like other people. He is always himself. That's what's wrong with him.

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But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

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