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I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Am Annoying Audience Din Fraud Fright Funny Gives Helpful Inside Loud Love Me Only Out Phony Readers Readings Rise Say Someone Stage Stage Fright Surely Up Voices Whisper Will I Am I Love

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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.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Birthday Bitter Extra Extra Mile Feel Fuss Go Makes Mile Neglected People Some Some People Then

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I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Any Behavior Bottom Creation Desperation Else Everybody Fix Get Gift God Good Good Ideas Having Heard How Huge Ideas Just Lot Mess More Out Own People People Say Plans Possibly Reached Really Rescue Run Said Save Say Where You Your

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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Christians Community Divine Divine Love Earth Jesus Love Manifest Think Through I Think

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I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Age Asking Bathroom Cheney Dick Cheney Every Had Inner Like Morning Out Scale Sense Thrown Up Validate Waking Waking Up Weighing Wish Worth Your Yourself I Wish

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

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Folk Folk Music Like Listen Lot Music Reggae Sophisticated Taste Very

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Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Actually Alive Life Live Longer Lose Loss Lot More More People People Pretty Really Stay Tricky Whom Without You

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The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Certainty Created Doubt Faith God Hates He He Or She Image Madness Opposite Out Own People Same She Tell Turns You Your

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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Accepted Am Asked Christianity Convert Dear Experience Fully Fundamental Hope Just Lord Messed Messed Up Neurotic Our People Questions Scared Share Someone Strength Try Trying Up Who Writing I Am

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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Actually Blood Children Earth Egyptians Expecting Generation Genes Here History How Humor Like Means Only Our Pregnant Profound Pyramids Shared Sibling Time Understand Were Younger Younger Generation

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 10th, 1954

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