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Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Broccoli
Listen
Tell

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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
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I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
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I am all the ages I've ever been.
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.
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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 don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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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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My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.
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It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.
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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 was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.
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Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
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Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
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