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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.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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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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I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
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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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Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.
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There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
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The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.
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