"Trying to reason with an addict was like……" — Anne Lamott

"Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb."

— Anne Lamott

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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…

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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious… — Michael Badnarik
I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and… — Anthony Bourdain
An addict never stops growing. Stupider. — William S. Burroughs
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong… — William S. Burroughs
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. — Emile M. Cioran
I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in… — Kurt Cobain
One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict. — George Carlin
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . .… — Eugene H. Peterson
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? — Clifford Stoll
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh… — Shirley Chisholm
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first… — Jean Cocteau
I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never… — Kelly Osbourne

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