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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.
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A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
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Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?
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Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.
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if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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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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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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You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
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