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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

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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 never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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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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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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Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
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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 love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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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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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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