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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

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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Games
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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
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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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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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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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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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 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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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