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My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Develop
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Complicate
Simple
Spray
Words
Afterwards
Natural
Tendency
Ideas
Onto
Everything
Tendencies
Things
Keeping

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