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I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
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.
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I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.
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Novels ought to have hope at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.
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I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.
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I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
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Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
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My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.
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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
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