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You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Chop
Sword
Point
Truth
Always

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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
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In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of it's energy.
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I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
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Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.
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Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
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I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
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Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
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Sam said to me the other day, I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops, and this is the exact same way in which I love him.
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I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.
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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
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And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It’s over you’re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.
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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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