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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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University Teacher
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
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Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
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Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
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I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.
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Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
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One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
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As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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