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knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
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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Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.
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There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.
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Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.
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Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.
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There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.
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I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.
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I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.
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Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
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Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.
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A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.
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I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.
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I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?
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My mother was an incredibly loving mother.
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I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room.
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The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none.
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The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
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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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I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
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This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.
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