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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
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Taking
Deals
Longer
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Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.
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Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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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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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 your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
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For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
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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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Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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All freedom comes from discipline.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
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Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
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