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Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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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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I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
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Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.
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Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.
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