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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?

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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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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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
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Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.
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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
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I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
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When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
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Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
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I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.
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