"As a memoirist, I strive for veracity." — Mary Karr
"As a memoirist, I strive for veracity."
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Mary Karr
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57 Quotes by Mary Karr
Mary Karr has 57 quotes on this site.
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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…
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If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first…
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Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our…
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The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows…
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I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out…
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I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my…
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The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and…
— Vivian Gornick
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The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily…
— Mary Karr
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Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a…
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To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you…
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