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Anna Quindlen je novinářka, spisovatelka.

✵ 8. červenec 1952
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Anna Quindlen: 35 citátů31 lajků

Anna Quindlen citáty a výroky

„Slzy dají hlas vaší bolesti.“

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Anna Quindlen: Citáty anglicky

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

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Zdroj: How Reading Changed My Life

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

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“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”

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“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”

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Zdroj: How Reading Changed My Life

“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers…”

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Zdroj: How Reading Changed My Life

“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”

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Zdroj: Every Last One

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

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“The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.”

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“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”

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Zdroj: Every Last One

“Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.”

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Anna Quindlen kniha Black and Blue

Zdroj: Black and Blue

“the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.”

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Zdroj: How Reading Changed My Life

“But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.”

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“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

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“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”

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Zdroj: How Reading Changed My Life

“I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it… why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.”

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Zdroj: One True Thing

“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”

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Zdroj: Living Out Loud

“And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.”

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“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”

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“Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.”

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Zdroj: A Short Guide to a Happy Life

“Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.”

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Zdroj: Every Last One

“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives."

[, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]”

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“Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.”

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Zdroj: Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

“There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance”

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Zdroj: Every Last One

“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”

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Zdroj: A Short Guide to a Happy Life

“Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.”

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The dangers of an AIDS epidemic. The New York Times, sect. A, p. 31 (December 9, 1993).

“Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.”

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Anna Quindlen, in Loud and Clear http://books.google.co.in/books?id=lHQQeWXNgpIC, p. 307

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