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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
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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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I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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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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No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
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Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.
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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.
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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
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I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
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