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Certainty is missing the point entirely.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Certainty
Entirely
Missing
Point

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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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