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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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The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.
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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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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
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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'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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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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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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