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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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The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
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I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior or how to save and fix and rescue or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.
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When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
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Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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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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Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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