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What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
People
Mess
Somehow
Order
Find
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Children
Perfectionism
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Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.
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I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear that's what Jesus said to do.
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You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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This is our goal as writers, I think to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.
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What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
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