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Anne Lamott is an American novelist, essayist, and non-fiction writer. She is known for her candid and humorous writing about her experiences with alcoholism, single-motherhood, and Christianity.

Lamott was born in San Francisco, California in 1954. She attended Goucher College for two years before dropping out to pursue a career in writing. Her first novel, Hard Laughter, was published in 1980.

Lamott has written several bestselling books of nonfiction, including Operating Instructions, Some Assembly Required, and Bird by Bird. She has also written several novels, including Rosie, Joe Jones, and Imperfect Birds.

Lamott is a popular speaker and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, and Good Morning America. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and Salon.com.

Lamott lives in Marin County, California with her son, Sam.

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

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We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

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Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

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Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

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