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Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean they show us how to live and die.

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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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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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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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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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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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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Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.
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...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
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No is a complete sentence.
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The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
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I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
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Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe, he said. Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe. Salon April 25, 2003
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of it's energy.
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