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"She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact, speech in general seemed a mistake. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. from Back When We Were Grownups."

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About Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler is an American novelist known for literary fiction centered on family life, including The Accidental Tourist and Breathing Lessons. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Breathing Lessons in 1989.

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