A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONGPeople always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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 am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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