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Too Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us…
- Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
- 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…
- My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
- 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,…
- Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast…
- Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
- You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
- For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures,…
- When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around…
- Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be…
- The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings…
- Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because…
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- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
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