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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
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Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
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Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
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Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.
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I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: Thank you.
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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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My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
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I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
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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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A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.
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I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.
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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
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