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the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
Anna Quindlen
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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.
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Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.
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It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.
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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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You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.
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I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.
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A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that's just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.
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Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
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I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.
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I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
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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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Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.
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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 hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.
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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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Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You have time for your friendships and you appreciate them in ways that you didn't before.
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And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.
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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
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I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.
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Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.
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