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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.
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I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.
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Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
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You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
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