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When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.
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Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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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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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
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