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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Playful
Swear
Humor
Relationship
Dark
Jesus
Sense

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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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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
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Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean they show us how to live and die.
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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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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
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These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
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Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.
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The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
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It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
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I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior or how to save and fix and rescue or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.
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When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.
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