I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.

—Anna Quindlen

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About Anna Quindlen

Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.

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

—Anna Quindlen

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A finished person is a boring person.

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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.

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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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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.

—Anna Quindlen in Every Last One

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Nothing's better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.

—Aaron Douglas Trimble

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I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

—Buzz Aldrin

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

—Sir Richard Steele

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The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.

—Joan Rivers

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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat cheese . . . get up at dawn to run, break for a midmorning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.