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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Hoped
Deal
Taking
Deals
Longer
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Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
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I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
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I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour. I promise you, it is there. Fight tooth and nail to find time, to make it. It is our true wealth, this moment, this hour, this day.
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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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All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.
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These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.
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Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
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The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
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I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.
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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
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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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