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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
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Write as if your parents are dead.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship
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You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
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Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
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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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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
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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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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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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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Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
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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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It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.
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