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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.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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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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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
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The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.
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My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
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Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.
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