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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
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You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.
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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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Novels ought to have hope at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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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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The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.
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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.
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Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
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In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of it's energy.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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