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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
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Longer
Great
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The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.
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Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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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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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
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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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You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
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I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
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... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]
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only grieving can heal grief the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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I am all the ages I've ever been.
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Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.
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