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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.

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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I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
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I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
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If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
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...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
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We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.
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Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.
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Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
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If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.
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The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in its bosom, holding me like a scared kid, and I opened up to that feeling-and it washed over me.
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