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There is ecstasy in paying attention.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Attention
Ecstasy
Paying

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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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My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.
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To be great, art has to point somewhere.
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I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
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Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.
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You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God -- and I believe there is -- that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.
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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.
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It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.
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I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
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I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
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We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.
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I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
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Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.
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