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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
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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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All freedom comes from discipline.
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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.
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If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.
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We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.
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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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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
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We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
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