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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
Truth
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Ever
Disappoint
Rarely
Experiences
Friendship
Alone

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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
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Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
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...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.
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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.
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