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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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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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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 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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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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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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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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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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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