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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
Mary Karr
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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
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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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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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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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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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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
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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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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 tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
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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 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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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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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'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
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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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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
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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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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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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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