"I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order."

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Mary Karr

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“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”
“Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.”
“We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all.”
“As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I'm not as probably as bad of a guy that I've been reported to be. I'm not that jerk.”
“Work at being a humble person.”
“Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog.”
“You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.”
“We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.”

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