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I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
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Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.
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I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.
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I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.
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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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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
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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 hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.
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And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'
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