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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.

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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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
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Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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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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What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.
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I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
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Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
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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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