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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
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San Francisco County
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.
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I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
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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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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.
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My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
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What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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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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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
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Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
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If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
Anne Lamott
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
Anne Lamott
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.
Anne Lamott
The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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