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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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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow, that that's really the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. I think I had that kind of fearlessness even as a young person. It wasn't tempered by experience or wisdom, but it took me a long way.
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Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.
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In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.
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[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.
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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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My mother was an incredibly loving mother.
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knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
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One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
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I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
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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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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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All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
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When you look at the women that have made a real difference in the world throughout history, what they’ve done has almost always been defined by fearlessness. That’s something I came to at a certain point I wish I’d come to it younger. Stop looking over your shoulder — there’s nobody who matters back there.
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Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.
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