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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
Ghouls
Rule
Friends
Fear
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...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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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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The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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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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When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).
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If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.
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This is our goal as writers, I think to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.
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Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
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Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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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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Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
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It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
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