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Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
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[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.
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I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.
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If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
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what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.
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I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.
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an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can he bring out young people? Can he bring out Latinos? Can he bring out those white suburban moms?
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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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