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It's a great time to be alive.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Alive
Great
Time

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It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
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I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
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The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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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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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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...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
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Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.
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Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
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The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
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The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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