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We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Raised
Books
Nature
Music
Book
Believe

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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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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.
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It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship
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Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
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My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.
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