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“Maybe it fostered in me a creeping ambition-deficit disorder, but it could ease an ache. So anything worth doing could be undertaken later. Paint the apartment, write a book, quit booze, sure: tomorrow. Which” quote by Mary Karr — Download Open image

““Maybe it fostered in me a creeping ambition-deficit disorder, but it could ease an ache. So anything worth doing could be undertaken later. Paint the apartment, write a book, quit booze, sure: tomorrow. Which””

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I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew…

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Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we…

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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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Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

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“And Meredith says that reminds her of a Camus novel, the one about the plague, and she tells the story of it, the tale…

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When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being…

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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

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“Then it hits me. I’m actually kneeling before a toilet. The throne, as other drunks call it. How many drunken nights and slungover mornings…

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“I think about the story of Job I heard in Carol Sharp's Sunday school. How he sort of learned to lean into feeling hurt…

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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…

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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

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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…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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