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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
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San Francisco County
California
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There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
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You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.
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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
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When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
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So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.
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Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.
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I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
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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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I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
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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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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.
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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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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.
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You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
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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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For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
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