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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Alone
Truth
Best
Ever
Disappoint
Rarely
Experiences
Friendship

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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.
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It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.
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Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.
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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
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And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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She lived in fear of ifonic endings.
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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
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one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
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I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
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I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
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I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
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