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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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The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
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It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
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The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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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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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
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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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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
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My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
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Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
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