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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.
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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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Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
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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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If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
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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.
Anne Lamott
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
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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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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
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