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All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Criticism
Hurt
Wrong
Business
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
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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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...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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If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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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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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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