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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Rarely
Experiences
Friendship
Alone
Truth
Best
Ever
Disappoint

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I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.
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