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Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
Anna Quindlen
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There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports and gives you time to support your family. I felt so lucky to have all that.
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I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
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Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.
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part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
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We are awash in the revealed world.
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Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.
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The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.
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What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.
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I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
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And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
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Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
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I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.
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Not writing at all leads to nothing.
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The purse is the mirror of the soul.
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Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.
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My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.
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We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even saying it aloud, a thought danced with them: I can do this. This is who I am.
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When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
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I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
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When you look at the women that have made a real difference in the world throughout history, what they’ve done has almost always been defined by fearlessness. That’s something I came to at a certain point I wish I’d come to it younger. Stop looking over your shoulder — there’s nobody who matters back there.
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Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
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Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.
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Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
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