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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Future
Touching
Show
Ruins
Lives
Rare
Belie
Moments
Shining
Bleakness
Shows
Pride
Brokenness
Objects
Clutter
Wall
Photos
Rooms
Cracks

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Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
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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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I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
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I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
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The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who have some psychological healing to lean up against, and gorgeous lives. All writers think that this time, the jig is up, and they will be exposed as frauds.
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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
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I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
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Novels ought to have hope at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.
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And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.
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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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My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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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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When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
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