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Write as if your parents are dead.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
Writing
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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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The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
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Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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only grieving can heal grief the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.
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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.
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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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I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.
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I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.
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You have to be a warrior and say, Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine. (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)
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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 why they write so little.
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Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
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