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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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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.
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The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
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I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
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I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.
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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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I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe, he said. Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe. Salon April 25, 2003
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