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You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. you can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
-Anne Lamott
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You Simply Keep Putting Down One Damn

Anne Lamott
You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. you can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
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