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It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.
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In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of it's energy.
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My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.
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That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
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Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean they show us how to live and die.
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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
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I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.
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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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Write as if your parents are dead.
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Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.
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Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
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Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
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Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.
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I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to “help” and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
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I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.
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