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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
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 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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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
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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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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
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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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Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.
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The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.
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