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Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Hungover
Greasy
Comforting
Food

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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.
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I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
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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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If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
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I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.
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I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
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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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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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She lived in fear of ifonic endings.
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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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