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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
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Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.
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I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
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Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
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You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.
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He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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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 you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.
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