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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Thinking
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Women
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If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
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All freedom comes from discipline.
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We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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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.
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We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
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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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