Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONGI do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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