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I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Age has given me the gift of me it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
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Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
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I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).
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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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What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.
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Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.
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All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, 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. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
Anne Lamott
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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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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