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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
Monsters
Wild
Kindness
Grows
Sure
Life
World
Breeds

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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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For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.
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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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Im always terrified when Im writing.
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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
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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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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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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've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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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 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'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 tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
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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 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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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
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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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