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Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Stuff
Poisoned
Better
Silently
Human
Pathetic
Humans
Lifetime
Feel
Spend
Sometimes
Walk
Feels
Walks
Talk
Slimy

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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
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