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I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior or how to save and fix and rescue or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Heard
Mess
Everybody
Save
Running
Bottom
Else
Gift
Ideas
Behavior
Desperation
Really
Plans
Rescue
Good
Creation
Reached
People
Huge
Possibly

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