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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
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San Francisco County
California
Alive
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So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people. Like I love you, Elizabeth. You're the angel God sent me.
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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.
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It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.
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Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
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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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if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
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We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
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It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.
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I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
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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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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.
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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
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