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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Erica Jong

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
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
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
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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Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Enemy Feel Guilt Guilty Man Sell Show Tortue Weapon Woman Women Worst
Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Drop Every Time Feel Five Hit Hundred Leave Mouth Plain Pocket Stomach
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
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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Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Gossip Opiate Oppress
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
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Anything Avoid Love Say Want You
I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Beacon One Piece Sex Travel Vowed
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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Always Anything Before Beginner Naked never Start Writing
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Compass Utter Discipline Edit Freedom
I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Intimacy Necessarily Produce Sex Think

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