"View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it."

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Source : Anne Tyler (2003). “Saint Maybe”

Anne Tyler

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“You know I've smoked a lot of grassO' Lord, I've popped a lot of pillsBut I never touched nothin'That my spirit could kill.”
“True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.”
“The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.”
“Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.”
“Don't ever use duct tape on your privates. That's what I always tell people.”
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
“I'm a journalist and that's what I do.”
“When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food.' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag.”

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