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Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, Lamott's writings cover such subjects as alcoholism, single-motherhood, depression, and Christianity.

✵ 10. avril 1954  •  Autres noms آنا لاموت, אן למוט
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Anne Lamott: Citations en anglais

“You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.”

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Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“I smiled back at her. I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”

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Variante: I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.”

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Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“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.”

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Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.”

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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.”

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Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“… one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.”

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Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

“If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.”

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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline…. But also every single day a kid needs a break.”

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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.”

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“… the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]”

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Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“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.”

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“It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.”

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Source: Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

“And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.”

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Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.”

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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.”

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Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.”

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Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.”

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Source: Crooked Little Heart

“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.”

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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that's death.”

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Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.”

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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?”

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Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?”

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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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