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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
People
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Worst
Seen
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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.
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When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
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Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
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Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
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I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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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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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
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If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.
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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
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I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.
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