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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Breathe
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.
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The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who have some psychological healing to lean up against, and gorgeous lives. All writers think that this time, the jig is up, and they will be exposed as frauds.
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it. I love the parts I love so much, but I find a lot of it just appalling. When a right-wing person quotes a passage in order to attack and stigmatize another person--or group of people--I just roll my eyes.
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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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