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Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Novels
Mostly
Novel
Happened
Happens
Real
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Life

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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: Thank you.
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