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Anna Quindlen

"Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts."

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"Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts."

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"A bachelor, a studio, those were the names for that kind of apartment. Separate entrance it would say in the ads, and that meant you could have sex, unobserved."

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"Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude."

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"Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy."

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"I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all."

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"Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top."

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"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."

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"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."

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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."

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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."

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