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I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
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The voice of God does not pander, offers no five-year plan, no long-term solution, nary an edict. It is small & fond & local. Don't look for your initials in the geese honking overhead or to see thru the glass even darkly. It says the most obvious crap - put down that gun, you need a sandwich.
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Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.
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For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.
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It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.
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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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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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Im always terrified when Im writing.
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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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Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
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I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
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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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That’s what’s so gorgeous about humanity. It doesn’t matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I think that’s our divinity. We lean into love, even in the most hideous circumstances. We manage to hope.
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There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
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Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.
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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
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I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.
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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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Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.
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