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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
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
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I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
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I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.
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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
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And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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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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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
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Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.
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I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.
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We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
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If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.
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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive it had no spirit. It was fake.
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