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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Incredible
Drug
Fear

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Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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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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Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.
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Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.
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I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
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I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.
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one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.
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On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
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