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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
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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high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.
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We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.
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Speech is the voice of the heart.
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Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. Book love, Trollope called it. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.
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