Quote by Anne Lamott
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but no

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. – 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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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere… You dont have to dress up, for instance, and you cant hear them boo you right away. – 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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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush. – Karl Rove

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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. – Desmond Tutu

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He that waits for a dead mans shoes may long go barefoot. – Proverb

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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I didnt get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was. – Sarah McLachlan

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To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation. – Philip Schaff

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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. – Ambrose Bierce

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