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Mary Karr Quotes: "Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild."

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.



Mary Karr Quotes: "Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards."

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.




Mary Karr Quotes: "Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon."

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.



Mary Karr Quotes: "The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code."

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.




Mary Karr Quotes: "In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said."

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.



Mary Karr Quotes: "I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer."

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.



Mary Karr Quotes: "I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!"

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!




Mary Karr Quotes: "When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me."

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.



Mary Karr Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards."

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.



Mary Karr Quotes: "I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny."

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



Mary Karr Quotes: "For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough."

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




Mary Karr Quotes: "Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt."

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.



Mary Karr Quotes: "There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety."

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



Mary Karr Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger."

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.



Mary Karr Quotes: "Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else."

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



Mary Karr Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world."

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.



Mary Karr Quotes: "A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.



Mary Karr Quotes: "I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years."

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.



Mary Karr Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver."

Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.



Mary Karr Quotes: "I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves."

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.



Mary Karr Quotes: "The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold."

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



Mary Karr Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't."

Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.



Mary Karr Quotes: "I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen."

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.



Mary Karr Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it."

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.



Mary Karr Quotes: "I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look."

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 Quotes: "Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me."

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 Quotes: "As a memoirist, I strive for veracity."

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.



Mary Karr Quotes: "I've never contended that I had a really horrible life."

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.



Mary Karr Quotes: "I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities."

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.



Mary Karr Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated."

He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.



Mary Karr Quotes: "When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind."

When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind.



Mary Karr Quotes: "The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker."

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.



Mary Karr Quotes: "Im always terrified when Im writing."

Im always terrified when Im writing.



Mary Karr Quotes: "The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water."

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



Mary Karr Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy."

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.



Mary Karr Quotes: "What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties."

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.



Mary Karr Quotes: "Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off."

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.



Mary Karr Quotes: "Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope."

Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope.