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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable worry about being absent or fraudulent.
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I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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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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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
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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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