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If women only knew the extent of their power! — Alphonse Karr

I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me. — Mary Karr

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. — Alphonse Karr

Writing the real self seldom seems original enough when you first happen on it. — Mary 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

At some point the talk got heated, and Paolo called Mother a strumpet, for which Daddy was said to have stomped a serious mudhole in Paolo's ass. — Mary Karr

I need you next to me when I wake up in the morning and lying beside me when I fall asleep at night. I need you like the air I breathe. — Kim 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

Just know you'll always be my once in a lifetime. — Kim 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

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable. — Alphonse Karr

Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver. — Mary Karr

Just because two people ceased to exist as a unit, it didn't mean you no longer felt the other person's presence in your life. — Kim 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

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr

The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water. — Mary Karr

He feels so real. He's what I crave. He's what I want. He makes me feel alive. — Kim Karr

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny. — Mary Karr

Her parents roared around in the masks of monsters. Not — Mary Karr

That line between love and lust was thin as a whisper. — Julia Karr

If your goal is to polish up a fake person you can sell to a public you perceive as dumb, the unexamined life will do perfectly well, thank you. — 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

Any time you try to collapse the distance between your delusions about the past and what really happened, there is suffering involved."
p. xx — Mary Karr

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

Metaphorically speaking, I always make room for any evidence of scurvy in my characters, any mitigating ailments. — Mary Karr

His silence hadn't been helplessness - it hadn't even been love. It had been pity. — Mary Karr

When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind. — Mary Karr

Life is a field of corn. Literature is the shot glass it distills down into. Lorrie Moore — Mary Karr

Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation. — Mary Karr

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech
the only prayers said. — Mary Karr

Comfort makes fools of us that way, and a kid gets faith back quick. — Mary Karr

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry. — Mary Karr

He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated. — Mary Karr

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it. — Mary Karr

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough. — 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

I'd choked back so many tears, they'd become a lake of sadness in my belly. — Julia Karr

Dumb hope is what it hurts most to write, occupying the foolish schemes we pursued for decades, the blind alleys, the cliffs we stepped off. — 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

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. — Mary Karr

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. — Alphonse Karr

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness. — Alphonse Karr

One expresses well only the love he does not feel. — Alphonse Karr

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me. — Mary Karr

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked. — Alphonse Karr

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. — Alphonse Karr

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

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

One can't mount a stripper pole wearing a metal diving suit. — Mary 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

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

The trick in that town was getting through a night at all without stalling in the sludge of your own thoughts. — Mary Karr

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety. — Mary Karr

They feed us the way the bread of communion does, with a nourishment that seems to form new flesh. According — Mary Karr

The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong. — Mary Karr

The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead. — 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

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards. — Mary Karr

If you let yourself tell those smaller anecdotes or stories, the overarching capital-S Story will eventually rise into view. — Mary Karr

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. — Alphonse Karr

Do you mean the 'you're wearing my underwear' face?" he asks, moving to the second button and swishing his head back and forth as he does. — Kim Karr

To my mind, a small bit of catshit equals a catshit sandwich, unless I know where the catshit is and can eat around it. — Mary Karr

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. — Alphonse Karr

Sometimes you have to chase what you really want because everything in life worth having won't fall into your lap. — Kim Karr

What would you write if you weren't afraid? — Mary Karr

The changes are coming fast and blind now, and in your skull sits an hourglass with a grain size hole through which numb seconds are sliding. — Mary Karr

He was so proud that she had more going on north of her neck than her hairdo. — 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

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

We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin. — Mary Karr

Aye, we all know your fondness for apples, brother. — Phyllis Ann Karr

Every writer needs two selves - the generative self and the editor self. — Mary 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

A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city. — Mary Karr

Whether you're a memoirist or not, there's a psychic cost for lopping yourself off from the past: — Mary Karr

I've said it's hard. Here's how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory's waters drowns a little. — Mary Karr

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. — Alphonse Karr

Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to rever any pinpoint of light now. — Mary Karr

Sometimes in the dark of the night we see what we want, wish for things that can never be, have hope we shouldn't. — Kim Karr

A hawk reeled overhead with a rodent squirming in its beak, close enough so you could see the bird's black shiny eyes. — Mary Karr

I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I myself harden into a person that I hardly notice. — Mary Karr

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. — Alphonse Karr

It's hard to be an articulate ghost. — Mary Karr

Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all. — Julia Karr

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. — Alphonse Karr

What it comes down to is that unless you tell me you still love him, there is nothing we can't work out. — Kim Karr

But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go. — Mary Karr

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. — Alphonse Karr