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You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
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We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.
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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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You have to be a warrior and say, Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine. (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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Sam said to me the other day, I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops, and this is the exact same way in which I love him.
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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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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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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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