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Mary Marlene Karr es una escritora estadounidense. Es autora de varios libros de poesía y de una trilogía de memorias, iniciada en 1995 con la publicación de El club de los mentirosos, libro "best-seller" del New York Times durante más de un año. Escribe en diferentes medios como The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry y Parnassus. Es profesora de Literatura en la Universidad de Siracusa. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. enero 1955
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Mary Karr: Frases en inglés

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

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Mary Karr libro The Liars' Club

Fuente: 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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Mary Karr

Fuente: Lit

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

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Mary Karr libro The Liars' Club

Fuente: 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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Mary Karr

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

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