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If women only knew the extent of their power!
— Alphonse Karr
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
— Alphonse Karr
Begging for More Kim Karr It was an instant attraction ... never intended to be more than a quick lay.
— Alessandra Torre
It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.
— Mary Karr
How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.
— Mary Karr
No writer can impose his own standards onto any other, nor claim to speak for the whole genre.
— Mary Karr
I do not believe in any wise man until I have heard him say << I doubt it>> three times and << I don't know >> two times.
— Alphonse Karr
It did not have the makings of a cozy situation for anyone but Mordred, who seems to relish being hated for the love of being hated.
— Phyllis Ann Karr
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
— Alphonse Karr
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
I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.
— Mary Karr
Sentimentality is only emotion you haven't proven to the reader - emotion without vivid evidence.
— Mary Karr
The memoirist's job is not to add explosive whammies on every page, but to help the average person come in.
— Mary Karr
Life is a field of corn. Literature is the shot glass it distills down into. Lorrie Moore
— Mary Karr
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech the only prayers said. — Mary Karr
A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
— Mary Karr
Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.
— Mary Karr
Our strange cynicism about truth as a possibility has permitted us to accept all manner of bullshit
— Mary Karr
(Who but a drunk, I wonder looking back, could sit on the porch alone and get in an argument?)
— Mary Karr
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
— Alphonse Karr
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
— Alphonse Karr
Weren't you lonely?" I shook my head and gave him a forced smile. "Isn't everyone in their own way?
— Kim Karr
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
— Alphonse Karr
The editor self thinks only of saving the reader time and shaping a powerful emotional experience.
— Mary Karr
Nothing worth having ever comes easy.
— Autumn Karr
They feed us the way the bread of communion does, with a nourishment that seems to form new flesh. According
— Mary Karr
There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
— George Augustus Henry Sala
Daddy said a Republican was somebody who couldn't enjoy eating unless he knew somebody else was hungry,
— Mary Karr
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
— Alphonse Karr
What would you write if you weren't afraid?
— Mary Karr
(Later, I'l learn that's the structure of an elegy: lament, consolation; bad news, followed by good news.)
— Mary Karr
A tiny part of me wanted to kick him, too, not because he was homeless, but because he was a judgmental asshole.
— Julia Karr
Aye, we all know your fondness for apples, brother.
— Phyllis Ann Karr
Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
— Alphonse Karr
If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
— Alphonse Karr
Whether you're a memoirist or not, there's a psychic cost for lopping yourself off from the past:
— Mary Karr
Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to rever any pinpoint of light now.
— Mary Karr
It's hard to be an articulate ghost.
— Mary Karr
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
— Alphonse Karr
