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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.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
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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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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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The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.
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We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.
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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'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
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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 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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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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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
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For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.
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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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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.
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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 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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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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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.
Mary Karr