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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Mary
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
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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 Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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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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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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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