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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Fatally
Uninteresting
Unreal
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Perfection
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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