Anna Quindlen Short Quotes

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Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work.

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Plastic is magical, as though the bill will never come due.

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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

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Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

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I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

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Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

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Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

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The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

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There is a character issue for Mr. Bush in this campaign. The clothes have no emperor.

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All the things we don't say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.

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I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

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I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

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There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existence.

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As my one son says, about being a feminist boy, 'Chicks dig it.' And that's been his guiding principle.

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High fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

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If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.

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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

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Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

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Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

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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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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

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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 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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We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

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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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All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

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For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

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