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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Barely
Broken
Head
Heart

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Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable worry about being absent or fraudulent.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.
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Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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All freedom comes from discipline.
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You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.
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I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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