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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier. ↗

— 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 was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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

— Anne Lamott

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Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not. ↗

— Michael Landon

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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

#between #day #disappointing #fear #feeling

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. ↗

— 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