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Anne Lamott Quotes

American - Author | April 10, 1954 -

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

Work Waiting Me Better Always Some

I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

Love Community Think Manifest Earth

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

Music Listen Taste Reggae Folk Music

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

Days Pieces Nonfiction Four Six

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.

Yourself Dress Amazing Attention You

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

Good Beautiful Great Day Simple

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.

Mother Culture Day People Bad People

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.

Love Mother Children Great Flowers

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

Want Special Something Plain

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.

Life Love Mother Women Best Woman

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

Flower Mother Son Eyes Find Always

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

God Bible Goodness Way Seems Just

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