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I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.
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The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
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Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
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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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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
Anne Lamott
Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
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If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.
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