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I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive it had no spirit. It was fake.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Spirit
Discovering
Rabbit
Wanted
Fake
Mechanical
Whole
Finally
Rabbits
Made
Merely
Wrapped
Long
Writer
Catching
Life
Wasn
Metal
Greyhound
Like
Alive
Metals
Greyhounds
Felt
Chasing
Cloth

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