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A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Columnist
Journalist
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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Unremitting
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Carefree
Without
Careless
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Caution
Life
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I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I just couldn't ratify their behavior and their decisions anymore by showing up on Sundays.
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My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.
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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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You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.
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I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.
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In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.
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I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.
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My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.
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Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
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There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.
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knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
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There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
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