“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
“Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”
Letter to Bolingbroke (March 21, 1729); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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