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Mary Karr
Mary Karr
American Poet
Born: Jan 16, 1955
About God Me People Think You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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
Saying Me Thought Giving Giving Up Saying Goodbye Out Goodbye Got Opposite Up Just Sober Turned Sparkle Fun Started
There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety. Mary Karr
Dreams Women Wildest Wildest Dreams Beyond Because Sobriety Succeeding
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. Mary Karr
Me You Suffering Passion Community Others Else Someone Poetry Take Make Doing Commune Body Communion Your Your Body
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
Daily Bets Physically Could Higher Emotional Like Nap Stakes Daily Basis Basis
I've never contended that I had a really horrible life. Mary Karr
Life Horrible Never Had Really
I'm always terrified when I'm writing. Mary Karr
Writing Terrified Always
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
Good Morning Three Web About Online Wednesday Week Never Written Checking Days Until Without Till Go End Five After Might Avoid Lapse Four Two
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating. Mary Karr
Buy Books Intoxicating Find Only Never Know Well Reads
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
Me You People Three Control Pay Down Kid Broke No Control Pick Put Attention Feet Tall Terrifying Terror Snaps Up Unemployed Childhood Move Just Flat Awake Illiterate Keen
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. Mary Karr
Life Bible People Dark Coffee Live Sold Bookstores Tables Only Ideas Devoid How Size Who Grasp Hometown
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself. Mary Karr
You Yourself Style Young Out Writers Vein Mistakenly Escape Blot Trying Often Want Young Writers Certain Choose Who Based Actually
I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive. Mary Karr
Problem Think TV Visual Like The Problem With Media
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
Sense Think State Back Virtue Way Out Kind Would Tortured Some Exalted Idea Liked Always Been Antiquated Than Artist Being Senses Less
Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog. Mary Karr
Great Prayer Writing Dog Secular Everyone Say Gee About Head Like Audience Want Whiz Radio
There are all kinds of things God wants me to do that I'm very obstreperous about. Mary Karr
God Me Kinds About Very Wants Things
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
Saying Family Me People Thought Out Bizarre Exactly Knocked Like Always Coming Up Yours Started
I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient! Mary Karr
Myself Like Doomed Act Even Inconvenient
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
Degree Books Never Look Read Which Them Profound Copy
I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer. Mary Karr
Faith Great Prayer Care Great Deal Air Find Sooner Comfort Without Deal Than
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
Good Memory Phone Remember Everybody Good Memory Like Up Grew Mean Really Street Numbers
I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny. Mary Karr
Think Favorite Like Look Catholic Least Close Scrutiny Pope
Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal. Mary Karr
Success Money More Writers Idea Deal Affected Huge

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