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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
Mary Karr
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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
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Groves
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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'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.
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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
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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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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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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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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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Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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Im always terrified when Im writing.
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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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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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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 get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.
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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
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There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
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