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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.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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May
Wells
Well
Stake
Something
Chips
Stakes
Characters
Fall

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I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: Thank you.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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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 don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated.
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On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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What an incredible drug fear is.
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We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
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Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.
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Good writing is about telling the truth.
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Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.
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There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again.
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What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
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