"We are a species that needs and wants……" — Anne Lamott
"We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little."
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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 Lice Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was…
— Tom Baker
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and…
— Louis Aragon
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will…
— Hans Zinsser
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The…
— Elias Canetti
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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It's hard to get lice out of your head, and there's no easy cure for shaking off campaign-based thinking, either.
— David Berkowitz
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Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
— Theophile Gautier
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Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.
— Eileen Chang
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Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by…
— Joni Mitchell
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Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you…
— Reynolds Price
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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