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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
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I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: Thank you.
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What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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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 try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.
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Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.
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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
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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.
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There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
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E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
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There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.
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One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.
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I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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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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