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I've always had a certain facility with words.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.
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There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
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When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
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It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.
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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
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Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured to the point where you suddenly think, nonsense. I am fine just the way I am.
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Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.
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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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We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.
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Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
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One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
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I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.
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I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.
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the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.
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In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.
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