My 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
ERICA JONGIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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