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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.
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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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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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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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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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