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All freedom comes from discipline.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Discipline
Freedom
Comes

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You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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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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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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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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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.
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The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.
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Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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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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I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
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I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.
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I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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