Anne Lamott Quotes

• I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone’s advantage.

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• I’ve known for years that resentments don’t hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

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• Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

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• My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

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• My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

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• The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God’s identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it’s the truth.

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• The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

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• Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.

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• If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

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• It’s a great time to be alive.

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• Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you’re a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you’re at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it’s your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

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  Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

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  I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

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• When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

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• We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

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• Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere… You don’t have to dress up, for instance, and you can’t hear them boo you right away.

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

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• I’ve written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don’t really have a genre these days.

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• I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

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• Joy is the best makeup.

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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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