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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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And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.
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I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.
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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.
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Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
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Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
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Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.
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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
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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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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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