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I think when people keep saying to you, You're good at this, you just keep doing it.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.
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Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.
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Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You have time for your friendships and you appreciate them in ways that you didn't before.
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I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
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knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
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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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Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.
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Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.
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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
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A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six long finished with childbearing, although every day that I grow older I realize there is never anything unremarkable about losing any part of what makes you female - a breast, a womb, a child, a man.
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Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.
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The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.
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Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.
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I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.
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It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't pay any attention to what anyone thinks of you. You just sort of are in your skin.
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A finished person is a boring person.
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London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.
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And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.
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Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self that's why it survives
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[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.
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