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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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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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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 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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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 more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
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