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Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
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If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in its bosom, holding me like a scared kid, and I opened up to that feeling-and it washed over me.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?
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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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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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Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.
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Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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