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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Days
Written
Four
Nonfiction
Really
Novels
Genre
Six
Novel
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They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.
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That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.
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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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Good writing is about telling the truth.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
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