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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.
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