Mary Karr Quotes
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Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be…
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If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush…
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A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
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I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.
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Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that…
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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
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Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in…
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Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune,…
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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…
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No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of…
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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…
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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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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 think that’s our…
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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
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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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There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
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I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.
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