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This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Possible
Sacredness
Human
Sisterhood
Humans
Easter
Life
Brotherhood
Awakening
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
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Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.
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Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
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Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
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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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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
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I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.
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I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour. I promise you, it is there. Fight tooth and nail to find time, to make it. It is our true wealth, this moment, this hour, this day.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
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This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.
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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.
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The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.
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Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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