"When writers make us shake our heads with……" — Anne Lamott
"When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again."
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
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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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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
— Joseph Addison
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
— Samuel Butler
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
— Lord Byron
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
— Albert Camus
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
— Albert Camus
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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