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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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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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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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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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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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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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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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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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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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 heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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