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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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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
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Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.
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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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Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
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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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There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
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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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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
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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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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
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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 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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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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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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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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Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.
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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
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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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I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.
Mary Karr