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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Split
Splits
Pulled
Wide
Singing

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There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.
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...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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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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The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
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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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She lived in fear of ifonic endings.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
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My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
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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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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
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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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Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.
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