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I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Tired
Call
Anyone
Snooze
Write
Button
Others
Buttons
May
Hitting
Everything
Gotten
Writing
Wake

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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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Sam said to me the other day, I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops, and this is the exact same way in which I love him.
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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 wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
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My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
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Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
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You have to be a warrior and say, Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine. (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)
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Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
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You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God -- and I believe there is -- that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.
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I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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