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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

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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You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.
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I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
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After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
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I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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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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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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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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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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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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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
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