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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Life
Perfectionism
Clutter
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Lived

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I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
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These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But why is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, You wouldn't understand. I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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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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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
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