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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 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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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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Im always terrified when Im writing.
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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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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I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.
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For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.
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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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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'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
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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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As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
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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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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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I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.
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The voice of God does not pander, offers no five-year plan, no long-term solution, nary an edict. It is small & fond & local. Don't look for your initials in the geese honking overhead or to see thru the glass even darkly. It says the most obvious crap - put down that gun, you need a sandwich.
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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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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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