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Mary Karr has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.
— Charles Shackleford
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put…
— John Updike
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I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious.
— Charles Shackleford
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Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
— Jeannette Rankin
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It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand,…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so…
— Bob Cousy
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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
— Mark Twain
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An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.
— John Scales
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He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and…
— Svetlana Alliluyeva
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First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as…
— Adolf Hitler
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Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.
— Nikolas Schreck
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