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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
Poet
Writer
Groves
Texas
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Inconvenient
Doomed
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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 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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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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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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