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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
Somewhere
Greatness
Point
Art
Great

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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.
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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
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Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
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Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.
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I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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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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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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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
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I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.
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... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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