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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

Erica Jong

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Excuse Full Life Live Pain
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Anything Dilemma Even More One Risk
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Did Die Love Only Simple Truth Wish
I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Acquire Always Courage Fear Most Taste Thing
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Fun Had Jealousy Think
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Firm First Follow Go Home Live Long Minute Porno Reaction Screw Ten
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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Affair Before Marriage Night Novel One Poem Short Someone Stand Story
Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Conflict Literature Soul
We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Being Experience Gone Human Spritualm Through
Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Beat Beaten Best Herself Need Slave
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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Accept Ahead Back Change Despite Fear Heart Part Pound Say Specially Turn
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

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