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butterflies were wind energy made visible.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Wind
Energy
Made
Butterflies
Butterfly
Visible

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You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
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So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
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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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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
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