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Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.
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Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
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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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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.
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He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
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I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean they show us how to live and die.
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I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
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I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive it had no spirit. It was fake.
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Good writing is about telling the truth.
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You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
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