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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Parents
Parent
Often
Kids
Grandparents
Grandparent
Embarrassment
Resist
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The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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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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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?
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Sam said to me the other day, I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops, and this is the exact same way in which I love him.
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Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
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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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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
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