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Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Squeezes
Juicy
Rationality
Intuition
Fascinating
Rich
Much

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Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
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Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
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The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
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The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But why is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, You wouldn't understand. I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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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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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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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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