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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Bigger
Ignorance
Much
Love

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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.
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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
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