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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
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Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
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I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
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You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
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It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
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Good writing is about telling the truth.
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[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer if you love, you will grieve. (68)
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The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.
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The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.
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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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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.
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Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
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