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Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
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All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
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Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.
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The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.
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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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After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
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Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
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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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Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.
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