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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Nothing
Time
Comeback
Sweet
Lose
Loses

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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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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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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
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