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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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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.
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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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The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
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It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.
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an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can he bring out young people? Can he bring out Latinos? Can he bring out those white suburban moms?
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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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Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.
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It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
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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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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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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.
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The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.
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Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.
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I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.
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