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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Hardest
Learning
Alive
Part
Back
Love

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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.
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Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.
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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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Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
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Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
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If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.
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This is our goal as writers, I think to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Age has given me the gift of me it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
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If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.
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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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