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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

Anita Diament

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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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Mountains
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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 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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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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 real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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 would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my 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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