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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.
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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I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that I think I discovered about those additional years is that I don't think they really are added to the end of life.
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I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.
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We are awash in the revealed world.
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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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Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.
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If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
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All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
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That's really what I want in a leader I want somebody who's really, really smart.
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Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.
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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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February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.
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the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.
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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 parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
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I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.
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London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.
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