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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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Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred - I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then 15 years later, I even started to make real money.
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... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
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Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
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Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.
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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
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I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
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When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
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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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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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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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We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.
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These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
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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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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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