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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Never
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Peoples
Fulfillment
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Opinion
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Self
Writing

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