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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-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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

— Anne Lamott

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I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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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

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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

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It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#beautiful #big #big hair #competitive #day

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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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

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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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