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A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
Poet
Writer
Groves
Texas
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Games
Mixes
Geometry
Ritual
Pool

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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 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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As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
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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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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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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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There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
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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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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
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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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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 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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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
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That’s what’s so gorgeous about humanity. It doesn’t matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I think that’s our divinity. We lean into love, even in the most hideous circumstances. We manage to hope.
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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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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've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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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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