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Greater Quotes by Anne Lamott

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Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets…

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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.

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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

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Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend…

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And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth…

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Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

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“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in…

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“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to…

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All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

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We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women…

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