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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.

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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A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
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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.
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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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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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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 was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
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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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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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Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.
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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
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Im always terrified when Im writing.
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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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Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.
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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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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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