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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
Surrounding
Pay
Beauty
Attention

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I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
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The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
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if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
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Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.
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You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.
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Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
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When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
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