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Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Everybody
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Right
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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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Age has given me the gift of me it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
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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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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear that's what Jesus said to do.
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There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
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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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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.
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My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.
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I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.
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Good writing is about telling the truth.
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It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.
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I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.
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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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