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if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
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Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.
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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
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This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.
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[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer if you love, you will grieve. (68)
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Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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