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Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.
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The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
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[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.
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Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.
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And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.
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Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
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For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.
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You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illuminating. I don't read any reviews anymore and it's been really liberating.
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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 read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
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Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.
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While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.
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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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The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none.
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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.
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Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.
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It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.
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If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
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I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.
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