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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Present
Forever
Lasts
Really

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I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.
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Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.
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That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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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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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
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To be great, art has to point somewhere.
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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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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My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.
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I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.
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I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.
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Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.
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