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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.
Anita Diament
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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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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 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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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