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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
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