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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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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)
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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 - )
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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 - )
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The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

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