Forgiveness Quote by Anne Sexton

“Not one man is forgiven! East, West, North, South! I bite off their dingbats. Christ rots in my mouth. I curse the seed of my father that put me here for when I die there'll be no one to say: Oh No! Oh dear.”

Anne Sexton

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