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I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Columnist
Journalist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Hierarchy
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Speech is the voice of the heart.
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The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
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If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.
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I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.
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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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There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
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The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
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I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention in other words, they're just life happening. That's what I think about: life, and telling a story.
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Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.
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My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.
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I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation: the exciting ephemera, the punch in the stomach, the adrenaline to the heart.
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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
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You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.
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This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.
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the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
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I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.
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The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.
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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.
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