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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
Mess
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Shows
Life
Perfectionism
Clutter

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When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
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What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
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Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
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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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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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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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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
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They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
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