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All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.

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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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Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
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My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.
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I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.
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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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Your kids are launched. You love your work but you understand how to place it in the panorama of the rest of your life. There's this line in the book, and when I wrote it I thought yes, that's it - if you think of life as a job, maybe by the time you get to, say, in my case, 60, you've finally gotten good at it.
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I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.
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an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can he bring out young people? Can he bring out Latinos? Can he bring out those white suburban moms?
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