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Going Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably…
- 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…
- Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up…
- And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but…
- The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another…
- Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an…
- No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get…
- You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories,…
- Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an…
- 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 it…
- I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at…
- I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love…
- I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
- No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again...…
- I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we…
- The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry…
- You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and…
- E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights,…
- Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is…
- We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
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- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar
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- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale