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.
ERICA JONG
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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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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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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