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I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it. I love the parts I love so much, but I find a lot of it just appalling. When a right-wing person quotes a passage in order to attack and stigmatize another person--or group of people--I just roll my eyes.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
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Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
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Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It’s over you’re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
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Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
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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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Joy is the best makeup.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
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I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
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I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
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Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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