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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
Expectations
Resentments
Parenting
Resentment
Construction

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He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
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It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.
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The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.
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I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.
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I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
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When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.
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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 whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
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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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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
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