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For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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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 whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.
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I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.
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Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
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only grieving can heal grief the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
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Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
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I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
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