Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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