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A hundred years from now? All new people.

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
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All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
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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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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
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I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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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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I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
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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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He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
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