“Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world.”

— Anne Lamott

Source: Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair

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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

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