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The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.
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The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
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Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
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I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.
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Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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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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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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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.
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