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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Happened
Tell
Stories
Everything

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All freedom comes from discipline.
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Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
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Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.
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Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
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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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The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.
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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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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
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My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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