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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.
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Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.
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I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.
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Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.
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I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.
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When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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With reference to the younger generation...If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane.
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And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.
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Testosterone does not have to be toxic.
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That's really what I want in a leader I want somebody who's really, really smart.
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Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents, and a record number of people in their sixties have kids who may still depend upon them.
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Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
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So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.
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All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
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Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.
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The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.
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Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
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Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.
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Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? Keep her, I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.
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