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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
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I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.
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I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.
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I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God -- and I believe there is -- that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.
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I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Age has given me the gift of me it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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