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.
ERICA JONGDo 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.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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