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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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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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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 his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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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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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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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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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