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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.
Anita Diament
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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
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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 because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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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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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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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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I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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 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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