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

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Source : "The Liars' Club: A Memoir". Book by Mary Karr, 1995.

Mary Karr

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“Some people have witnessed the killing of their husbands, or they survived other horrific things. My sister is a widow but her husband was killed after the Khmer Rouge. There are different periods in which violence has occurred, and differences in how these women became widowed and how they survived afterwards.”

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“Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.”
“Trust is the essence of Leadership.”
“I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.”

Source : "The Oscars? Oh no, not again". www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2000.
“The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.”
“You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.”
“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?”

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