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Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.
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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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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.
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Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.
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Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
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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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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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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.
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My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
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If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
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Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable worry about being absent or fraudulent.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.
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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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