“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Traveling Mercies
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap”
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