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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Church
Sometimes
Grandparents
Grandparent
Loved
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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.
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We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
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I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.
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I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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Novels ought to have hope at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
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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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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.
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