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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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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 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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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'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
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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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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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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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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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The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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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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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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As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
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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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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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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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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.
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