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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Seen
Much
People
Mask
Worst

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I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
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Novels ought to have hope at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.
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I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive it had no spirit. It was fake.
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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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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
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The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
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You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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Sam said to me the other day, I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops, and this is the exact same way in which I love him.
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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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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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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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Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
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