Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light mor… - Anna Quindlen

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Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase "the good old days" has passed from cliché to self-parody.

Anna Quindlen

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class-warfare cliches Crime exclusion immigration morals nostaliga parody prejudice self-deception social-change social-norms Society xenophobia

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Anna Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992.

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Alternative Names: Anna Marie Quindlen

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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.

A book — the book that was, for some reason, THE book — can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

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