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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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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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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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They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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 because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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