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  1. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    Always have a purpose,' his father used to tell him. 'Act like you're heading someplace purposeful, and none of the low-life will mess with you.' He had also said, 'Never trust a man who starts his sentences with "Frankly,"' and 'Nine tenths of a good sidearm pitch is in the flick of the wrist,' and 'If you want to sell a person something, look off elsewhere as you're speaking, not straight into his eyes.
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  2. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively speaking, it was nothing - empty far longer than full. so much of herself had been invested in those children; who could believe how briefly they'd been with her.
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  3. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    When you come {to a baseball game} in person, you direct your own focus, you know? The TV or the radio men, they might focus on the pitcher when you want to see what first base is doing; and you don't have any choice but to accept it."
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  4. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    Cody cut into a huge wedge of pie and gave some thought to food--to its inexplicable, loaded meaning in other people's lives. Couldn't you classify a person, he wondered, purely by examining his attitude toward food?
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  5. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    dying, you don't get to see how it all turns out. Questions you have asked will go unanswered forever. Will this one of my children settle down? Will that one learn to be happier? Will I ever discover what was meant by such-and-such?
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  6. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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  7. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    ...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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  8. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    She remembered the feel of wind on summer nights - how it billows through the house and wafts the curtains and smells of tar and roses
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  9. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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  10. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    I'm falling into disrepair"
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  11. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    ...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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  12. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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