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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
Hurts
Criticism
Hurt
Wrong
Business

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The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.
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This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.
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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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Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
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And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.
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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.
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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.
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You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
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Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
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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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My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
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Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
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