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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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"I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at."
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"I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it."
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"Each person has their own calling on this Earth."
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Explore more quotes by Anne Tyler

"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age

"I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at."
Earth

"Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people."
People

"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 be free to get on with my real life."
Life

"Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
Nature

"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."
Life

"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."
Decision-Making

"I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own."
Writing

"And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be."
Class

"But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer."
Hope
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