"All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business."

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Anne Lamott

#Hurt Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Hurt Me Quotes

“Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.”

Source : Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.254, Simon and Schuster
“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”
“None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one anotherâ€™s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.”
“Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.”

Source : Song: Letter To My Countrymen, Album: Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color, 2012
“You couldnt make headlines with raised eyebrows”
“Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.”
“But once you publish a book, doesnâ€™t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldnâ€™t we just write books and print them out ourselves, and give them to specific people we felt comfortable giving them toâ€“like gifts? Isnâ€™t publishing sort of a social contract?”
“I dont want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it was definitely a tendency that began around 1910”

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