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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Denver
Jersey
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Childhood
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Newark

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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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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 am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
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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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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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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