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“The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.”

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Anne Lamott is an American novelist born on April 10, 1954. Her works are known for their humor, directness, and profound emotional depth, primarily exploring themes of family, faith, and self-discovery. more

“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.”

People Needs Believe Said America Mother I Believe Half Known Share Streets Dying India Sells Profit Cures Existentialism Dread Existential Bananas Teresa

Author:Anne Lamott

“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.”

Ifs Littles Book Play Kids Hurt Air Brother Mercy Down And Excitement Rising Leap Crash Little Kid Older Brother Up In The Air Rising Up Seesaw

Author:Anne Lamott

“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.”

Thinking Way Children Sometimes Lost Daughter And Love God Love Halls Rebel Ache Messed Up Screwed Up Juvenile

Author: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.”

Men Mother My Own Inspiring Grew Gay Extraordinary Passing Passings Spite Mothers Day Gay Men Surrogates Extraordinary Love

Author:Anne Lamott

“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.”

Rooms Doors Car Periods Window Desert Beach Locked Resorts Room Service

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“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.”

“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.”

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Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.”

People Years Seems Turns Rooms Walking Photography Years Ago Standing Window Dry Print Plates Shed Sixty Captured Alleys Workshops Spinning Plates

Author:Ansel Adams

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