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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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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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I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.
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When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.
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The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
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My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.
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One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
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My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.
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However, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be considerably more conservative on these issues, perhaps even than Governor Romney is, and I think that that will give Americans a clear set of choices about all issues, but about women's issues too.
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The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.
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Not writing at all leads to nothing.
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So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.
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