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Mary Karr, Lit: A Memoir (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 239.
Tim Mackie • Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools
The author of a lasting memoir manages to power past the initial defenses, digging past the false self to where the truer one waits to tell the more complicated story.
Mary Karr • The Art of Memoir
I was a liar. Even though I lived in a place where everyone knew who I was, I couldn’t help but try to introduce new versions of myself as my interests changed, and as other versions of myself failed to persuade. I was also a thief.
Mary Karr • The Art of Memoir
the best ones come from the soul of a human unit oddly compelled to root out the past’s truth for his own deeply felt reasons.
Mary Karr • The Art of Memoir
pretty much any truth written deeply and with enough clarity and candor to allow emotional range winds up fascinating me.
Mary Karr • The Art of Memoir
The goal of a voice is to speak not with objective authority but with subjective curiosity.