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I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
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The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.
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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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