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

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Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.
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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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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
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Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
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You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.
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Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
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We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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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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