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When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
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It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
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