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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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Mind
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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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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
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I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity. The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts. I hate that. I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away.
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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
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I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.
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You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated.
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On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
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