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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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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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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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 love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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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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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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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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