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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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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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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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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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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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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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 early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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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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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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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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