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- I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06
- If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06
- Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
- Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000)
- Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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