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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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I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.
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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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Speech is the voice of the heart.
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Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.
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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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We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even saying it aloud, a thought danced with them: I can do this. This is who I am.
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Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.
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being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.
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We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
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Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
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Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.
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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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All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
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I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.
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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
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I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.
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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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If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.
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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a teachable moment.
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