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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Simple
Decide
Begin

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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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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
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I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
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Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.
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One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
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I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.
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