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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
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Years
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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
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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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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
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Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.
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I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
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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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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean they show us how to live and die.
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