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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Greet
Together
Human
Humans
People
Humanness

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... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]
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There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.
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Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.
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These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
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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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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.
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I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
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I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.
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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.
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And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
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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 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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