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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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Mountains
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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 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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
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on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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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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