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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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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 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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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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 never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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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