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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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I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
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Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
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Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
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She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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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 have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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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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I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.
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