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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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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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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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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 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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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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.
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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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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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