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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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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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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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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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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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 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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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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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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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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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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I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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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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