Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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