“Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?”

—  Anne Lamott

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

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