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More Than Enough More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen
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“Beauty is whatever gives joy.’ ”
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“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.”
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“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. Molière,”
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“who”
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“Sometimes this kind of family happens, but most of the time it doesn’t. I can’t tell you why. I can tell you that when it does happen, it’s seen and felt by the people in it as though it’s no big thing. And when it doesn’t, it takes on this huge significance. It’s like with love, at least for women. Either you hook up with someone in college, and there you are, or suddenly you’re thirty and looking for your soulmate, which is an expression I hate. And if somehow all of that doesn’t go according to plan, it’s this monumental tragedy.”
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“That’s the book for my book club this month,” I’d said. “How did everybody like it?” I’d laughed. “We didn’t read it. We pick a book every month, and we all get it. But the rule is we don’t read it. That’s the rule. You can’t cheat even if you want to.”
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“death,”
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“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.”
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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
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“Maybe everyone’s mother was a kind of mystery to her daughter. Maybe everyone’s daughter was a mystery to her mother.”
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“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. Molière”
Anna Quindlen, More Than Enough
“This year it’s from Louisa May Alcott: “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
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“head.”
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“We never know what's living inside the people around us.”
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“Sometimes I think the human brain is a house, and the lights only come on in mine one room at a time.”
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“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. —Emily Dickinson”
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“Ears or mouth. Listening or advice.”
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“superstitious.”
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“My candle burns at both ends”
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“The thing about family: Lots of times someone was doing something behind your back”
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“Sometimes I think the human brain is a house”
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“Don’t you think that when people want you to talk about how you feel”
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“Pandas are not bears. Neither are koalas.”
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“Alcott: “I am not afraid of storms”
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“I am out with lanterns”
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