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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Becoming
Conscious
Writer

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I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
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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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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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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship
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For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
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You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.
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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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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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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
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The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.
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It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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