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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
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I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.
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You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.
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That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
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Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
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The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.
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The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
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