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Needs Quotes by Anne Lamott
- 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…
- It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things…
- I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and…
- Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our…
- 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…
- Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman…
- Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
- 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…
- The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side…
- The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.…
- We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one…
- Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form…
- My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just…
- Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being…
- It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all…
- We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people…
- Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do…
- I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood…
- You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess,…
- Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them.…
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- Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond. — Frederick Lenz
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