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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Am Change Life People Seem Some Some People Take Those Time Understand I Am

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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Forever Lasts Present Really Then

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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Before Between Day Disappointing Fear Feeling Francisco Full Gravy Hate Hoped March Most Peace Recent San San Francisco Somewhere Up Virginia Wake Wake Up Woke Woolf

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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Evolved Lives Look Lot Made Moments More Others Our Our Lives Some Spiritually String Than Those Thousand Up

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Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Almost Coming Disappointments End Ever Life Make Make Up Makes More No Sense Out Presents Quickly Sense Some Than Up

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

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Church Grandparents Loved Sometimes

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The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: After Arrived Authentic Began Believe Burst Cavalry Fifteen Forth Going Got Had Heal Life Might Movement Now Out Say Starting Tell Truth Were Women You

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I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Agreed Been Born Discover Fast Found Get Had Instead Job Last Lost Magazine Moment Myself Package Place Prestige Quit Real Real Job Slowly Small Started Tied Tightly Track Up Who Writer I Quit

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The American way is to not need help, but to help.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: American American Way Help Need Way

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My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Atheist Christmas Church Episcopal Eve Every Mostly Mother She Year

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 10th, 1954

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