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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Storytellers
Dancers
Storyteller
Primitive
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You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
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It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
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I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
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Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.
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When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.
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... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).
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There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.
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We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.
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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
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To be great, art has to point somewhere.
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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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Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
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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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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
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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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