Mary Karr Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Prayer, Air, Comfort

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

  Mary Karr

  Too Much, Enough

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

  Mary Karr

  Love, Dream, Witty

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• No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

  Mary Karr

  Coffee, Flower, Night

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.16, Penguin

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• But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

  Mary Karr

  Thinking, Voice, Listening

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• I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

  Mary Karr

  Thinking, Catholic, Looks

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• If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.

  Mary Karr

  Wall, Husband, Lying

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• A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

  Mary Karr

  Games, Pool, Geometry

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: Picador Classic”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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• The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.

  Mary Karr

  Character, Fighting, Water

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• Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

  Mary Karr

  Real, Names, Smell

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: Picador Classic”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• The voice of God does not pander, offers no five-year plan, no long-term
  solution, nary an edict. It is small & fond & local. Don't look for your initials in the geese
  honking overhead or to see thru the glass even darkly. It says the most obvious crap - put down that gun, you need a sandwich.

  Mary Karr

  Gun, Years, Voice

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

  Mary Karr

  Smart, School, Students

  "Mary Karr Speaks To HuffPost Books About Her New Memoir 'Lit'", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

  Mary Karr

  Character, Emotional, Giving

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• There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Dream, Sobriety

  "Mary Karr, Alcoholic Mother, Recalls Shame of Addiction" by Sean Dooley and Shana Druckerman, abcnews.go.com. April 27, 2010.

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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 human and wanting stuff we don't always get.

  Mary Karr

  People, Suffering, Stuff

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• Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

  Mary Karr

  Heart, World, Dull

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• People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.

  Mary Karr

  Art, Ideas, People

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• The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine head in the yoke they've shaped. Everyone learns this. Born, everyone breathes, pays tax, plants dead and hurts galore. There's grief enough for each. My mother learned by moving man to man, outlived them all. The parched earth's bare (once she leaves it) of any who watched the instants I trod it. Other than myself, of course. I've made a study of bearing and forbearance. Everyone does, it turns out, and note those faces passing by: Not one's a god.

  Mary Karr

  Mother, Hurt, Grief

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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

  Years, Overnight Success, Publishing

  "Mary Karr writes up a storm with 'Cherry'". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2001.

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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

  Moving, Kids, Feet

  "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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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

  Book, Profound, Degrees

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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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

  Dad, Guy, Pals

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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 want magic, to win
  the lottery we never bought a ticket for.

  Mary Karr

  Winning, Magic, Want

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

  Mary Karr

  Machines, Lines, Calm

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.

  Mary Karr

  Family, Running, Teenager

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.54, Penguin

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