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A hundred years from now? All new people.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Memorable
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Years
People

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The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
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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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My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.
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I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
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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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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.
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Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
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