Quotes by Anne Lamott

About Anne Lamott:

Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

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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 it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.

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If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

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I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about snakes and scary neighbors. By the age of four or five, I was terrified by my thoughts. By the time I was five, the migraines began. I ...

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With THC in your system, you don't dream. And you need to. Otherwise it is like losing one of your senses. Dreams are part of your wholeness. ... when you're dreaming, you're not the one calling the shots. So it's a reprieve. ... the dream world had ...

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She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227]

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Rosie had to keep her room neat enough so James would not freak out, but not so neat that they could figure it all out, break the code, of who you truly were, what you were up to, your values, your truest parts. ... you were layer upon layer of ideas...

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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

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He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.

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Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world.

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Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on.

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Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don't forget, he has his own mother to deal with. She's all he can handle, as far as mothers go.

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This kind of beauty softens you and expands you, which is good, but of course it makes you vulnerable to all sorts of horrible things, like, oh, feelings. And being in your body.

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You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequen...

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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

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And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.

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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue

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I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams.

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His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible.

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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for ...

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Author Bio

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