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• I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon – because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

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• I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

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• I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

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• I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

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• No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother’s Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture’s bad people and behavior.

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• Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

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• The earth is rocky and full of roots; it’s clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you’ll never see it again – it’s death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

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• Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

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• 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 dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

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• 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 march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

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• 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 the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

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• I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends’ mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

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• I didn’t write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

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• I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

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• When we’re dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs – we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

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• I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

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• I don’t want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

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• Some people won’t go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

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• There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

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• A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light – in other words, through life – registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

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Anne Lamott (80)

Birth:	10th April, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Novelist, Teacher, Writer

About

Anne Lamott was born in San Francisco. She is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, Lamott's writings cover such subjects as alcoholism, single-motherhood, depression, and Christianity.  Her first published novel Hard Laughter was written for him after his diagnosis of brain cancer.

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