What did Mary Karr mean by: Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild. Mary Karr Author · USA Copy
Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mary Karr, Humility, Innocence, Perspective, 0 Mary Karr Author · USA
How much smaller the large places are once we’re grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mary Karr, Adulthood, Nostalgia, Perspective, 0 Mary Karr Author · USA
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech — the only prayers said. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mary Karr, Poetry, Prayer, 0 Mary Karr Author · USA
There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mary Karr, Empowerment, Sobriety, Success, 0 Mary Karr Author · USA
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I’d been publishing for 20 years. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mary Karr, Patience, Persistence, Success, 0 Mary Karr Author · USA
Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mary Karr, Altruism, Happiness, Love, 0 Mary Karr Author · USA
Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don’t. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mary Karr, Fatherhood, Gender, Relationships, 0 Mary Karr Author · USA
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mary Karr, Creativity, Love, Poetry, 0 Mary Karr Author · USA
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile? Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. Marya Mannes Writer · USA
