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When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Rule
Friends
Fear
Make
Ghouls

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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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I am all the ages I've ever been.
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It's better to be kind than to be right.
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I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
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Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
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My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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You have to be a warrior and say, Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine. (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)
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There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again.
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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
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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 best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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Good writing is about telling the truth.
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Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
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