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Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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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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My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.
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In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of it's energy.
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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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...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.
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Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.
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For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
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The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.
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This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
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They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
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All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.
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I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.
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Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
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This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.
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We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.
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