Quotes by Anne Lamott

About Anne Lamott:

Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

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I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

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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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I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

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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...

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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

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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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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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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

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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 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 loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross r...

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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

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I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

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I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

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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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I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.

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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

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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'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnne Lamott
  • DescriptionNovelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
  • BornApril 10, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship