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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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San Francisco County
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
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There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.
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I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. 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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.
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In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of it's energy.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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