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Expectations are resentments under construction.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Resentments
Parenting
Resentment
Construction
Expectations

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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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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 reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
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My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
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Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.
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...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
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by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.
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Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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To be great, art has to point somewhere.
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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 think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.
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Age has given me the gift of me it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
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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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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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