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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Delicious
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Breath
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Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.
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We all know we're going to die what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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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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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.
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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
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All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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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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What an incredible drug fear is.
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Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.
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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
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If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
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We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.
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