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Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.
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I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
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I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
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I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
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... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
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I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
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Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.
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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
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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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When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.
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If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
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Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
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