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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Graduates
College
Accidentally
Graduate
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.
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The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
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