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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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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
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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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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
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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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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
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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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