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There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

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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Everyone
Best
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Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
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My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
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It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.
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Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
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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.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.
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It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
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Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
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I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
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Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'
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If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
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