"Charles had once remarked that holding onto a……" — Anne Lamott
"Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die."
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good…
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More Charles Quotes
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one of 370 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy.
— Lewis Black
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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
— Eli Broad
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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth…
— Bill Bryson
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over…
— Bill Bryson
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I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood…
— Nicolas Cage
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just…
— Ray Charles
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
— Madonna Ciccone
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane,…
— Eric Clapton
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in…
— Maya Angelou
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