60 Anne Lamott Quotes for You to Enjoy

Anne Lamott

American Author

Born: Apr 10, 1954

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. Anne Lamott

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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. Anne Lamott

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage. Anne Lamott

Love Psychic Busy Gave Everyone Component Fingers Never Had Advantage Like Perhaps Concentration Up Child Psychiatric To Love Worked Much Used Chains Thin Damage

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain. Anne Lamott

Something Something Special Beautifully Want Plain Special

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. Anne Lamott

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The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth. Anne Lamott

Love Truth God Faith Women Hate Men Men And Women First Ways Mystery Had True True Faith Identity Accept Always Holy

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know. Anne Lamott

People Seriously Long Would Eat Rather Long Line Know Line Than

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

Day Peace Hate Fear Wake Up Somewhere Feeling Before Virginia Virginia Woolf Francisco Hoped Disappointing Between Most Woke Wake Up San San Francisco Woolf Full March Gravy Recent

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. Anne Lamott

Life Will Unwanted Society Must Inflict Children Who

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

Written Days Pieces Genre Nonfiction Six Really Novels Four

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away. Anne Lamott

You Yourself Amazing Somewhere Boo Dress Seeing Dress-Up Having Instance Attention Concept Print Without Hear Up Get In Print Them Much Much Attention Show Away Actually Right Right Away

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children. Anne Lamott

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. Anne Lamott

Life Love Best Gay Woman Women Mother Men Own Extraordinary Entire Entire Life My Own Spite Partly Because Mothers Am Passing Were Friends Grew After Loved Them Many Even Whom Her