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Joy is the best makeup.

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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Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
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To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
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There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.
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Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.
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My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.
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Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
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You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.
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We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.
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Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
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Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean they show us how to live and die.
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I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
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So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people. Like I love you, Elizabeth. You're the angel God sent me.
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