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My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.
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Good writing is about telling the truth.
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I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
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When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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