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I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
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It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.
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If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.
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My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.
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And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.
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I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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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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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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My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
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I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
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We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
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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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