Quote by Anne Lamott
If you dont die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You

If you dont die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. – Anne Lamott

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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. – Anne Lamott

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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: Id hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. – Anne Lamott

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I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. – Anne Lamott

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I believe its time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. – Janelle Monae

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. – Jean Paul

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You dont have to save the world, but you can be in the world-thats where the beauty comes from. – Daphne Zuniga

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I was always anti-marriage. I didnt understand monogamy. I couldnt figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone – of having a partner in life. – Maria Bello

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I dont regret anything I ever do or say. I dont like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because youre honest. – Eva Longoria

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In Jewish history there are no coincidences. – Elie Wiesel

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. – Jean Rostand

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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. – Anais Nin

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