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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Progress
Small
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Blessings
Healing
Blessing
Increase

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And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It’s over you’re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.
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I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.
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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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Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.
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I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
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I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.
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If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.
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Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
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Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.
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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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Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.
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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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Joy is the best makeup.
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Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
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You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
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