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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
Time
Alive
Great

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For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
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She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.
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Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean they show us how to live and die.
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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
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All freedom comes from discipline.
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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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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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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
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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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Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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