Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
ERICA JONGMy advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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