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I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.
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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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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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