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Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
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I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.
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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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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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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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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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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.
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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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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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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've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.
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