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Instead Quotes by Anne Lamott
- And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but…
- I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place…
- You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely…
- Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be…
- When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life,…
More Instead Quotes
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Smarmy little prig,†Will snarled, leaning father forward, as if he longed to reach through the magical portal and strangle Gabriel. “When… — Cassandra Clare
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer