A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGMy 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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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Home is where your books are.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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