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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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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.
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I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
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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 have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.
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