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As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
Poet
Writer
Groves
Texas
Memoirist
Veracity
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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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There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
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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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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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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 was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
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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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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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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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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 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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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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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
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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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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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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
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