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Book: The Liars' Club
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out bullshit that grinds you down; how in one instant of pure attention you could draw something inside that made you forever larger.
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
sister was. But I couldn't resist such a clear shot. So I said her
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
I ALMOST FELT A WEIRD POWER OVER MOTHER DURING SUCH TIME. SHE HAD A HOLD ON ME, AT LEAST. AND HER GRIP FELT LIKE SHE WOULD HANG ON NO MATTER WHAT I YANKED HER THROUGH. BY THIS TIME IT WAS HURRICANE SEASON.
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild, elsewise every raped baby would grow up to raped."
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
Leechfield Will Grease The Planet!
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
There was a diet center that sported a plywood cutout of a pink pig wearing a brick-red polka-dot dress. The bubble coming from the pig's mouth held this phrase: A New Way To Lose Weight Without Starving To Death.
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
nothing matters but the quality of the affection- in the end-that has carved the trace in the mind dove
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
Most kids bent their heads onto their notebooks and tried to sleep. One boy gauged the quality of his day by sleeping on graph paper, then drawing a circle around the drool spot he'd made and comparing it for size and integrity to his drool spot from the day before. For
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
The first day of school, we walked till we reached a stretch of black graffiti on the sidewalk. Somebody named Ken blew dead bears, it said.
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
her parents roared around in the masks of monsters. Not
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
The cans of bathroom cleaner they sold had faced the sun in their display pyramid for so long that their front labels had faded from lime green to pale lemon. The mouse-print instructions about not eating the stuff could no longer be read. "If swallowed-" each of the cans said, then there was just a wordless scorch mark as warning. At
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Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club
It sometimes seems to me like we're not supposed to notice that Shug's colored, or that saying anything about it would be bad manners. That puzzles me because Shug's being colored strikes me as real obvious. And usually anybody's difference gets pounced on and picked at. This silence is a lie peculiar to a man's skin color, which makes it extra serious and extra puzzling. Daddy
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