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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
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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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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 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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The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.
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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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A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
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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'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
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For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.
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There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
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Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we want magic, to win the lottery we never bought a ticket for.
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
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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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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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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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We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.
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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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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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