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The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

~Mary Karr

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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.

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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.

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Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

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

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If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 16th, 1955

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