What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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