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To be great, art has to point somewhere.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Point
Art
Great
Somewhere
Greatness

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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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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
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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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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
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by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.
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Sam said to me the other day, I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops, and this is the exact same way in which I love him.
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Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable worry about being absent or fraudulent.
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She lived in fear of ifonic endings.
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