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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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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.
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I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
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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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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
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My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.
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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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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.
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You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.
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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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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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