"One of the gifts of being a writer……" — Anne Lamott
"One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around."
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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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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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If…
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No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the…
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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