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I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
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My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
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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.
Anne Lamott
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
Anne Lamott
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
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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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Certainty is missing the point entirely.
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Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
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This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
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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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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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