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“It's a great time to be alive.”

Quote by Anne Lamott

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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

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“I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.”

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“I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.”

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“A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.”

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“I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.”

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“I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.”

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“I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.”

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“I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.”

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“No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.”

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“I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.”

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“We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.”

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