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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

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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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World
Classical
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Jazz
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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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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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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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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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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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