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I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
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It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
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It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.
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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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Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
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When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.
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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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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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