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Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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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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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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