“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”

—  Anne Lamott

Variant: Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

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