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...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. (Anne Lamott)
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something-anything-down on paper. What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head. View quote
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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. View quote
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After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. View quote
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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms. View quote
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate. View quote
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting. View quote
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty. View quote
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We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues. View quote
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You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. View quote
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean. (Anne Lamott)
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. View quote
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. View quote
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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable. View quote
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It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable. View quote
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Certainty is missing the point entirely. View quote
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When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you. View quote
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. View quote
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one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more. View quote
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. View quote
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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. (Anne Lamott)
I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this. View quote
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He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are. View quote
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. View quote
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There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are. View quote
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