Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love. -- Anne Lamott
我是这样成为我自己的：一塌糊涂，失败，失误，失望，和广泛的阅读;  迷茫，彷徨，挫折，沉溺，当众尴尬，和我最好的女性朋友们无尽的对话;  失去没有他们我活不下去的人，失去留下我一个人蹒跚的宠物，令人目不暇接的背叛及更多的忠诚。 总之，用我作为座右铭的 威廉·布莱克的话说，我们在这里学会忍受爱的光芒。－－ 安 拉莫特 

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
   
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
   
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
   
4. Be in love with yr life
   
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
   
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
   
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
   
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
   
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
   
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
    
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
    
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
    
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
    
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
    
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
    
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
    
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
    
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
    
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
    
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
    
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
    
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
    
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
    
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
    
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
    
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
    
29. You’re a Genius all the time
    
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

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