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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
Sneaky
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Progress
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I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear that's what Jesus said to do.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
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Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
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Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.
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Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
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Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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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.
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For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
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You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
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I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
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