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There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
Poet
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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
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Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
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The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.
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Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.
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Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.
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I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
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I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.
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The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.
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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
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For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.
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