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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Attention
Surrounding
Pay
Beauty

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This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
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This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
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...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
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Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
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My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
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I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.
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To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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