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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
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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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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
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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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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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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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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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