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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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Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.
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I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.
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A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
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Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.
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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 think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.
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I think that after a while you realize that your husband can't be all things to you and certainly you don't want the kids to be all things to you, because that would be a terrible weight for them and that where you really find solace a lot of the time is with your girlfriends.
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A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
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If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.
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Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.
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You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
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I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that I think I discovered about those additional years is that I don't think they really are added to the end of life.
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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
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People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
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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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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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