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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
Poet
Writer
Groves
Texas
Life
World
Breeds
Monsters
Wild
Kindness
Grows
Sure

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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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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
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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 was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
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A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
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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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Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
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As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
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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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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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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 not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
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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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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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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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