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One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently. Amity Shlaes

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I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels. Amy Waldman

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. Anais Nin

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. Anais Nin

Live Living Out Never Effort Wore Much

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? Anais Nin

Love Friendship Real Overlook Cannot

I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is. Anand Giridharadas

Happy Valuable Am Very American Realize Inheritance

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! Andrew Gross

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I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all. Andy Andrews

Motivational Education Myself Great Me People Wonderful Believe Type Consider Ourselves About Something Comedian Am Any Create Really Speaker

I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how we choose our partner, and how we behave when we are with them. And that is the part that interests me. How that part of the personality is forged doesn't just interest me, it fascinates me. Angeles Mastretta

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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing. Ann Voskamp

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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe. Anne Enright

Me People Speak First Before Nice Gave Took Secret Able First Child Name Days Like Naming Safe Well Child Did What If Suspect Keep Her Second

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. Anne Lamott

Love People Writing Words Impeachment Word First Cute Progressive Hesitates Drawn Run Divine Divine Love Almost Know Piece Makes Any Screaming Little Sentence Use Many Lives

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. Anne Lamott

You Parents Kids Embarrassment Relief Often Grandparents Resist

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. Anne Lamott

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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be. Anne Lamott

Love People Will See Feel Know How Existential Going Maybe Children Clue Us Hard Many Fill Need

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us. Anne Lamott

Hurt Known Years Person Us Resent

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. Anne Lamott

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The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. Anne Lamott

Birthday You Worst About Only Part Well Another Celebrating Shock

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility. Anne Lamott

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