What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGYou 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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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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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 have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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