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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
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Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred - I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then 15 years later, I even started to make real money.
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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
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I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
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Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.
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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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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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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
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Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
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We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.
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You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
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I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
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