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I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.

Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott's Popular Quotes

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

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You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.

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I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

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You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of …

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Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sw…

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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.

- Anne Lamott
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