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You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illuminating. I don't read any reviews anymore and it's been really liberating.
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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Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.
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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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All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
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