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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
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Surprises
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Writing

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I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.
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Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.
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My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.
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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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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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Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
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The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.
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It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
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