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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.
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 has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. Book love, Trollope called it. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.
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[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.
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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
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And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
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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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