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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Anita Diament

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Foundation
Enemy
Pleasure
Death
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Art
Pleasures
Love
Sympathy
Life
Debt
Gratitude

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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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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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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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