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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Instinct
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Space
Back
Mind
Make
Chattering
Intuition
Rational

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