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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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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Mask
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Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.
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This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.
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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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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.
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I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
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Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
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Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
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Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
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You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.
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