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Quote by Anna Quindlen
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely c

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. – Anna Quindlen

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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. – Anna Quindlen

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strength
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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. – Anna Quindlen

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Beauty
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. – Anna Quindlen

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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. – Chief Joseph

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I found out about reviews early on. Theyre mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. Thats probably why Im less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. – Barry Hannah

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sad

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. – William Peter Blatty

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sad

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. – Horace

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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. – E. M. Forster

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mom

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the peoples desire for change. – Eliot Spitzer

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Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. Id like to have a family of my own – slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children. – Katherine Jenkins

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