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Away Quotes by Anne Lamott
- All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and…
- A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if…
- I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
- Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that…
- Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have…
- The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it…
- I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown…
- I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The…
- Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
- Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to…
- This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean…
- If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation…
- Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out…
- A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius