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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
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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 truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
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Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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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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My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
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And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It’s over you’re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.
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