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Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Trying
Newspapers
Puppy
Every
Neighbor
Yards
Mind
Patience
Newspaper
Time
Train
Kick
Paper
Kicks
Looking
Floor
Keep
Bringing
Wayward
Back
Drop
Yard

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