"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise……" — Anne Lamott
"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."
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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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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
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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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More Bore Quotes
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one of 407 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional…
— Alan Ball
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I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave…
— Roseanne Barr
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
— Josh Billings
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But…
— Bjork
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
— Louise Brooks
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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing…
— Julie Burchill
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
— Samuel Butler
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Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
— Winston Churchill
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and…
— Harlan Coben
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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