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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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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Catholic
Hierarchy
Testament

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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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Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.
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I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and you've got your friends to support you and your family to support you, you wake up one morning and think, yeah, I'm okay.
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When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
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It is so easy to exist instead of live.
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If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.
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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
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More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.
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The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.
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I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.
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Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.
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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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Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.
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part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific andtorturous, involving and utterly tedious, all at the same time. The world is full of women made to feel strange because what everyone assumes comes naturally is so difficult to do--never mind to do well.
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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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You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.
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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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There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports and gives you time to support your family. I felt so lucky to have all that.
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