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You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Hear
Either
Laborer
Word
Laborers
Artist
Brick
Keep
Bricks
Come
Damn
Writing
Putting
Simply

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