Mary Karr Quote

I exhale a highway of smoke and stare down it, then say, Each day has just been survival, just getting through, standing it.Don’t you see how savage that sounds? Like, that’s the way men in prison yards think. You live in a rich suburb and teach literature.

Mary Karr

I exhale a highway of smoke and stare down it, then say, Each day has just been survival, just getting through, standing it.Don’t you see how savage that sounds? Like, that’s the way men in prison yards think. You live in a rich suburb and teach literature.

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About Mary Karr

Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.