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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”

Erica Jong

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
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Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Deal Humor Imposible Most One Series Situation Tool
You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Creative Gitl Good Still
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Abortion Again Back Battle Birth Going Hope Keep Over Right Same Territory Win
Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Complete Creature Experience Feel Image Narrative Unless Record
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Anything Dilemma Even More One Risk
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Dead Like Loneliness Marriage
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Did Die Love Only Simple Truth Wish
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Able Cry Ever Experience Mist Must Stand Think Use Wonder
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Always Cheerful Confident Envied Everything Friend Practical Secretly Seem Terrified
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Firm First Follow Go Home Live Long Minute Porno Reaction Screw Ten
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Fear Need Ourselves Sufficient Unto Web

Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”

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