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Hope begins in the dark.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Inspirational
Anticipation
Begins
Healing
Dark
Hope

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Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.
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If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.
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I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
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All freedom comes from discipline.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
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No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
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My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
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We all know we're going to die what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
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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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Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
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Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.
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