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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
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It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
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You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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