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Point Quotes by Anne Lamott
- The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is…
- To be great, art has to point somewhere.
- Certainty is missing the point entirely.
- I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom…
- Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves.…
- You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
- Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom…
- Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told…
- Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little…
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- All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — Wystan Hugh Auden