"Every now and then we enter the presence……" — Mary Karr
"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 infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential."
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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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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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Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing…
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