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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
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Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.
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[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.
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There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
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It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
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Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.
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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.
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Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.
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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
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This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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I am all the ages I've ever been.
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