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Firsts Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.
- The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We…
- Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you…
- I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female…
- You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
- [After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I…
- Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
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