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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
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Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
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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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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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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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Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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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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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear that's what Jesus said to do.
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Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.
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Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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