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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.
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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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
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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 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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It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.
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I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.
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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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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
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Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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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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People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.
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A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
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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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