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If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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We all know we're going to die what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
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Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.
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I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: Thank you.
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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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