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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Dopey
Fills
Sweet
Funny
Real
Life

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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred - I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then 15 years later, I even started to make real money.
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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
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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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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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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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I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.
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You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But why is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, You wouldn't understand. I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.
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Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.
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Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
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Age has given me the gift of me it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
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