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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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Death
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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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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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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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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It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
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