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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Goodness
Bible
Jesus
Seems
Way
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
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Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
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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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Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.
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That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
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Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
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