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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
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San Francisco County
California
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.
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Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
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The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
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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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We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.
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Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.
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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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I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.
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I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
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I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.
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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear that's what Jesus said to do.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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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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