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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
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Goodness
Bible
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The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
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I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable worry about being absent or fraudulent.
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For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
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You have to be a warrior and say, Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine. (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)
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Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.
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[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer if you love, you will grieve. (68)
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
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I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.
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