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Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
California
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Fear
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
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Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
Anne Lamott
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
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Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
Anne Lamott
Write as if your parents are dead.
Anne Lamott
Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.
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Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
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