No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into ...
Anne LamottLife is not a submarine.
Anne LamottStichwörter: writing-advice
Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
Anne LamottStichwörter: life love spirituality personal-growth
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
Anne LamottStichwörter: innocence writing beauty
I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.
Anne LamottAnd what do you do in the face of this powerlessness? As a parent?"
"You get to be obsessed and angry," Tom said. "And they get to be the age they are, and act like teenagers if they want to. There is a zero-percent chance you will change them. So we breathe in, and out, talk to friends, as needed. We show up, wear clean underwear, say hello to strangers. We plant bulbs, and pick up litter, knowing there will be more in twenty minutes. We pray that we might cooperate with any flicker of light we can find in the world.
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
Anne LamottStichwörter: parenting
Now, Muriel Spark is said to have felt that she was taking dictation from God every morning-- sitting there, one supposes, plugged into a Dictaphone, typing away, humming. But this is a very hostile and aggressive position. One might hope for bad things to rain down on a person like this.
Anne LamottOne writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, "It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do-- you can either type or kill yourself.
Anne LamottWe aren't a drop in the ocean, but are the ocean, in drops.
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