Anne Lamott quotes - page 9

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long. (Anne Lamott)
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. View quote
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties. View quote
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Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. View quote
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Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt. View quote
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. View quote
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Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall. View quote
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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service. View quote
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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. View quote
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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. View quote
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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction. (Anne Lamott)
Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit. View quote
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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. View quote
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes. View quote
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. View quote
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. View quote
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. View quote
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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people. View quote
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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh. View quote
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The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan. View quote
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E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later. (Anne Lamott)
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. View quote
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted. View quote
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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. View quote
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My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. View quote
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