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Tell Quotes by Anne Lamott
- I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.
- You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
- I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And…
- I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they…
- 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 can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
- If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
- 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.…
- If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real…
- Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person…
- I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and…
- 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…
- Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.
- Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both…
- You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
- The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when…
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