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Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Carbonated
Holiness
Laughter
Humor
Grace

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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
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So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.
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Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.
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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.
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Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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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 never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.
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The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in its bosom, holding me like a scared kid, and I opened up to that feeling-and it washed over me.
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