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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.
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I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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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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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear that's what Jesus said to do.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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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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I am all the ages I've ever been.
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You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.
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Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
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