Anne Lamott Quotes

There can be an easy way to interpret things some times and it seems like maybe I'm on the wrong side of those interpretations a lot of those times.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.'

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

When it comes to politics, there's never a certain yes or no to any situation.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

You know, people are saying, they don't understand, really, what I'm doing.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.