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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
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Devoted
Daughter
Mother
Also
Earth

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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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If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But why is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, You wouldn't understand. I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.
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I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
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To be great, art has to point somewhere.
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
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Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
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The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who have some psychological healing to lean up against, and gorgeous lives. All writers think that this time, the jig is up, and they will be exposed as frauds.
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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