The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water. — Mary Karr Character Copy Share Image
“Daddy said a Republican was somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating unless he knew somebody else was hungry,” — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating. — Mary Karr Book Copy Share Image
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr Ability Copy Share Image
“He was so proud that she had more going on north of her neck than her hairdo.” — Mary Karr Hairdo Copy Share Image
I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny. — Mary Karr Catholic Copy Share Image
“In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it’s done right.” — Mary Karr Memoir Copy Share Image
Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
That’s what’s so gorgeous about humanity. It doesn’t matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out… — Mary Karr Artist Copy Share Image
I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“I couldn't have been more than six, but I was calling her an ignorant little bitch. Her momma stood on the porch… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be… — Mary Karr Choose to be happy Copy Share Image
Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Then it hits me. I’m actually kneeling before a toilet. The throne, as other drunks call it. How many drunken nights and… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“And you snap out of it. Or are snapped out of it. Never again will you lay a hand against yourself, not… — Mary Karr Abundance Copy Share Image
I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps… — Mary Karr Clock Copy Share Image
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“If you'd told me even a year before...that I'd wind up whispering my sins in the confessional or on my knees saying… — Mary Karr Confessional Copy Share Image
I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“. . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied.” — Mary Karr Good story Copy Share Image
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said. — Mary Karr Communication Copy Share Image
I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years. — Mary Karr Overnight success Copy Share Image
I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.” — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
