February 23, 2010

That little girl from Texas

Mary Karr:

People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I’ll never see it again.

(via Austin Kleon)

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  1. Rick Neece on February 23rd, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    Ooo, Andrew, this speaks.

  2. Andrew Simone on February 24th, 2010 at 12:23 am

    Amen, Rick. After reading it, I had wished I had given the interview.

  3. Josh Weichhand on February 24th, 2010 at 7:03 am

    Accolades, Andrew.

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