It is unearned love — the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you ar… - Anne Lamott

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It is unearned love — the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

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Anne Lamott (born 10 April 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

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