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Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.
~ Mary Karr
About
Age
Attention
Books
Bookstores
Healthy
Healthy Thing
Looking
Marketplace
Me
Paying
Stopped
Thing
Up
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As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
~ Mary Karr
Strive
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Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition.
~ Mary Karr
Agnostic
Any
Both
Both My Parents
Buddhist
Consistent
Had
Involve
Kind
Know
Mother
New
Other
Parents
Partly
People
Practice
She
Skeptical
Some
Sort
Spiritual
Spiritual Practice
Suspicious
Tendencies
Thing
Tradition
Were
Which
Why
You
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Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
~ Mary Karr
Attention
Awake
Broke
Childhood
Control
Down
Feet
Flat
Illiterate
Just
Keen
Kid
Me
Move
No Control
Pay
People
Pick
Put
Snaps
Tall
Terrifying
Terror
Three
Unemployed
Up
You
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Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.
~ Mary Karr
Behind
Drafts
Every
Poem
Sixty
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For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.
~ Mary Karr
About
After
Avoid
Checking
Days
E-Mail
End
Five
Four
Go
Good
Might
Morning
Never
Online
Three
Till
Two
Until
Web
Wednesday
Week
Without
Written
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Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.
~ Mary Karr
Around
Dad
Great
Guys
Having
Me
Pal
Permitted
Some
Way
Women
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I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.
~ Mary Karr
Always
Bizarre
Coming
Exactly
Family
Knocked
Like
Me
Out
People
Saying
Started
Thought
Up
Yours
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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 you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.
~ Mary Karr
Become
Believe
Blessed
Even
Everything
Fully
God
I Believe
I Believe In
Innately
Once
Person
Self
Then
Who
Will
You
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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 up on.
~ Mary Karr
Everybody
Good
Good Memory
Grew
I Can
Like
Mean
Memory
Numbers
Phone
Really
Remember
Street
Up
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I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
~ Mary Karr
Books
Copy
Degree
Look
Never
Profound
Read
Them
Which
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I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.
~ Mary Karr
Catholic
Close
Favorite
Least
Like
Look
Pope
Scrutiny
Think
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I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.
~ Mary Karr
Air
Care
Comfort
Deal
Faith
Find
Great
Great Deal
Prayer
Sooner
Than
Without
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I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.
~ Mary Karr
About
Anything
Channel
Desire
Few
Five
Get
Inspire
Memoirs
Per
Pick
Them
Up
Week
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I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.
~ Mary Karr
Addictive
Buy
Coke
Counting
Days
Diet
God
Know
Last
Myself
Now
Off
People
Personality
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I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
~ Mary Karr
About
Complexities
Lives
Loaded
People
Psychological
Soon
Tell
Too
Write
Writing
Young
Yourself
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I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.
~ Mary Karr
Always
Antiquated
Artist
Back
Been
Being
Exalted
I Think
Idea
Kind
Less
Liked
Out
Sense
Senses
Some
State
Than
Think
Tortured
Virtue
Way
Would
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I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.
~ Mary Karr
I Think
Like
Media
Problem
The Problem With
Think
TV
Visual
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I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
~ Mary Karr
About
Adult
Become
Citizens
Fall
I Think
Love
Ourselves
Stories
Think
Way
Writing
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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
~ Mary Karr
Became
Been
Before
Old
Overnight
Overnight Success
Publishing
Success
Years
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