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Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life North American; United States, pub. 1994

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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.” Anne Lamott — Bird by Bird

Bird by Bird is about writing. But it’s really a permission slip for anyone who’s ever been made to feel dangerous just for remembering. Anne Lamott was one of the first writers who made me feel like telling the truth didn’t have to be gracious to be good. 

If you’ve ever been told to just let it go, this one’s for you.

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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.

-- Anne Lamott

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E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly — that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

— Anne Lamott

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“E. L. Doctorow once said that ‘writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard.”

— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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