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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.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
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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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...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.
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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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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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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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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
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Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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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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I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
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So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people. Like I love you, Elizabeth. You're the angel God sent me.
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Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.
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It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
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If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
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You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.
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Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.
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