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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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The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.
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It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
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I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.
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Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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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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The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
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Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
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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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I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
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The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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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 thing about light is that it really isn’t yours it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.
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Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
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Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
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Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.
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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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