"I always say that a poet loves the……" — Mary Karr
"I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world."
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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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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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More Alternative Quotes
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax,…
— Michele Bachmann
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In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because…
— Gerry Adams
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You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.
— Lewis Black
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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good…
— Tom Brokaw
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Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and…
— Jerome Bruner
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
— George H. W. Bush
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The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
— George W. Bush
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
— Maurice Chevalier
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You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down -…
— Chris Christie
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best…
— Winston Churchill
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