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When I read, I'm purely a reader

Anne Tyler / Novelist
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When I read, I'm purely a reader.

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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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