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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Provides
Guides
Goodness
Protect
Even
Believe
Craziest
Protects

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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).
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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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I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.
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I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.
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Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
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I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.
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I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it. I love the parts I love so much, but I find a lot of it just appalling. When a right-wing person quotes a passage in order to attack and stigmatize another person--or group of people--I just roll my eyes.
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This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.
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There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again.
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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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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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No is a complete sentence.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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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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Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.
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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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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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