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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

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'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.
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I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak isn't exactly real, that it will be gone by the time you get home and make a cup of tea. I found a lot of life like that when I was younger, as though I was practicing for what came later.
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[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.
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London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.
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the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.
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I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.
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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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