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Mary Karr, Lit Quotes: We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.
         

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


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Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.



What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.



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Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.



. . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied.

. . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied.



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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.



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Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.



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It's hard to be an articulate ghost.



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





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