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Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Altering
Canon
Poetry
Works
Reading
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
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I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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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've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior or how to save and fix and rescue or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.
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If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
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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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Write as if your parents are dead.
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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
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No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
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