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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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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
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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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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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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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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
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Good writing is about telling the truth.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'
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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
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Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
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Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.
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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
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