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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
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I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
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And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It’s over you’re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.
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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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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.
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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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I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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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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I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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Good writing is about telling the truth.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
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... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
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