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This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
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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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