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It's better to be kind than to be right.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Kind

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Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe, he said. Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe. Salon April 25, 2003
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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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There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.
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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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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
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