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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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We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.
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You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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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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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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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 a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.
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Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
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[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer if you love, you will grieve. (68)
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You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.
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For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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