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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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Pleasures
Debt
Pleasure
Death
Love
Life

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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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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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 my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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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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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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