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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
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You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.
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It's better to be kind than to be right.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
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Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
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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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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
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All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
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If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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No is a complete sentence.
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You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.
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I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
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