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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

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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Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
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In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of it's energy.
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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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Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
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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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Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.
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This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.
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I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.
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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
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It's better to be kind than to be right.
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.
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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
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There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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