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Mary Karr è scrittrice statunitense.

✵ 16. Gennaio 1955
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Mary Karr: Frasi in inglese

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”

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Mary Karr libro The Liars' Club

Origine: The Liars' Club

“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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Origine: Lit

“Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild…”

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Mary Karr libro The Liars' Club

Origine: The Liars' Club

“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.”

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Origine: Lit

“But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me… and go on living without me.”

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Origine: Lit

“If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.”

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Origine: Lit

“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.”

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Origine: Lit

“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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Origine: Lit

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

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Origine: Lit

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