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From Quotes by Anne Lamott
- They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really…
- Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and…
- Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
- You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care,…
- 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…
- You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from…
- All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed…
- When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
- All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm,…
- This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth…
- When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering…
- I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends,…
- I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach…
- The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled…
- I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you…
- I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper…
- 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.…
- Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,…
- I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.
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