hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. - Anne Lamott

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hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

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About Anne Lamott

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

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By the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.

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