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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
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Holiness
Laughter
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
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I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.
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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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only grieving can heal grief the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
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I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.
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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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Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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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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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear that's what Jesus said to do.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
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I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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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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