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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.
Anita Diament
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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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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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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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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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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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Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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