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Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Pair
Pairs
Glasses
Heaven
Sometimes

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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.
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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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On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
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I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour. I promise you, it is there. Fight tooth and nail to find time, to make it. It is our true wealth, this moment, this hour, this day.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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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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I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
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Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?
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Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
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I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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