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The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

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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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
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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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Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.
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Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.
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I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.
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My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
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If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.
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I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.
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We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
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Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
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I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
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