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I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?
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I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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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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Sam said to me the other day, I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops, and this is the exact same way in which I love him.
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I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
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You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
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My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.
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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
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E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But why is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, You wouldn't understand. I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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