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She lived in fear of ifonic endings.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
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You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
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We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
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My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
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I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
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Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?
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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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The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.
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I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
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Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.
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Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
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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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