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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.
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I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
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I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.
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When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
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I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
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You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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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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If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)
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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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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
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You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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