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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

Erica Jong

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Book Call Classic Grow Nature Patiently Shell Them Wait
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Birth Courage Do Fact Love Mother never Quote She Want Wing Wings
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Carry Momentum Own Word
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Block Emphasis Future Joy Merely Miseries Past Present Shadow
The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Feel How Joy Much Pain Trick
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Anything Far Interesting Life More Plot Say
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Come Dog Live Love Loyalty
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
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONG

Alternate Country Create Hard Hate Myself One People Person Place Prizefighter Try Writer
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 JONG

Crack Cynical Everything Love People Something Subsesive Tell Want
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONG

Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONG

Empathy Excuse Other Our Trap Underpay
It 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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Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Airplane Athlete No Turbulent

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