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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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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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Eloquently

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I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.
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