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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.

Erica Jong

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Courage Dark Everyone Follow Lead Place Talent
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Excuse Full Life Live Pain
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Flesh Learn Lesson Merely On Pass
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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Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women
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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Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Empathy Excuse Other Our Trap Underpay
My 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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Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Enemy Feel Guilt Guilty Man Sell Show Tortue Weapon Woman Women Worst
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Gossip Opiate Oppress
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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Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Love Loved Myself
It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth
I look forward and see myself look back.
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Back Forward Look Myself See
I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Abortion Again Back Battle Birth Going Hope Keep Over Right Same Territory Win
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Anything Avoid Love Say Want You

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