Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of …

Anne Lamott
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Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.181, Anchor
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