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My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
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Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?
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Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean they show us how to live and die.
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The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.
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Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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We all know we're going to die what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.
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Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.
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I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.
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Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.
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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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I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.
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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.
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