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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Answered
Prayer
Help
Helping
Always

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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.
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I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
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Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.
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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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Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.
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To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
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Certainty is missing the point entirely.
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of it's energy.
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I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
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... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
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It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.
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Write as if your parents are dead.
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Novels ought to have hope at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.
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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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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.
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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.
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