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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
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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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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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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
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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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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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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.
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The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
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I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
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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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I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.
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I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.
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My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
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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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