![]() " been trying to get sober and not really listening to the ways you're supposed to do it, and somebody said 'pray on your knees every day for 30 days and see if you stay sober.' And I just saw it as, like, self-hypnosis or like talking to yourself." The only way I was able to do it was through practice," she says. And it wasn't easy for the author herself to buy into religion. "Talking about spiritual activity to a secular audience is like doing card tricks on the radio," Karr says. ![]() But even after her conversion, she understands why talking about her relationship with God might turn some of her audience away. Karr found escape from her self-made hell when she finally turned to religion, a topic that found its way into Lit at length. My hells are pretty much self-constructed." I want to do all these things that aren't particularly good for me. "I didn't quit drinking because I wanted to stop drinking. "I didn't want to stop drinking," Karr admits. ![]() No amount of self-awareness made her vices easier to cope with. ![]()
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