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I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.
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She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.
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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.
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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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I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
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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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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being here on this scary planet, during these scary times, as vulnerable as kittens, having lost so many people I couldn't live without.
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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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