"You can get the monkey off your back,……" — Anne Lamott

"You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town"

— 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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More Circus Quotes

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Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of… — Drew Barrymore
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be… — Emmanuelle Beart
You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and… — Lewis Black
The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result… — Julie Burchill
My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people… — Nicolas Cage
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. — George Carlin
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard… — Francesca Annis
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses. — Juvenal
When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the… — Graig Nettles
Golf is a nice game, but that's all. It's never going to be an exciting game to watch on TV.… — Jack Nicklaus
Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a… — Dean Koontz
The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about. — Guy Laliberte

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