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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
People
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.
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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 do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.
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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
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There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again.
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Write as if your parents are dead.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.
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To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But why is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, You wouldn't understand. I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.
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if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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