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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.

Erica Jong

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Courage Dark Everyone Follow Lead Place Talent
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Gossip Opiate Oppress
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
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
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
I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Intimacy Necessarily Produce Sex Think
Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Alone Creativity Demand Enough Less Nothing Talent You
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 don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
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
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
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Actually Believe Courage Cowardice Cynicism Height Innocense Many People Require Result Today
Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Conflict Literature Soul
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Away Drive Easier Goodbye Saying
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

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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