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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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Owes
Pleasures
Debt
Pleasure
Death
Love
Life

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I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
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I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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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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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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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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