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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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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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The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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