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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
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It is so easy to exist instead of live.
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Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
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It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.
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Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.
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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
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[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.
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The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.
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I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?
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Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.
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Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
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