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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

Erica Jong

Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONG

Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
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
ERICA JONG

Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONG

Gossip Opiate Oppress
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONG

Believe Death Men never Own People Possibility Reason Send War Young
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONG

Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend
As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Direction Face Long Matter Right Size Step
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 trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONG

Feel How Joy Much Pain Trick
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONG

Fear Need Ourselves Sufficient Unto Web
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.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONG

Fun Had Jealousy Think
Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
ERICA JONG

Curious Indication Most Photograph Reality
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONG

Anything Currency One Remember Show Use Wants Worth
Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
ERICA JONG

Bottle Breast Child Cuddling Done Father Feeding Fondling May Mother Need Nobody Paediatric Succumb
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONG

End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONG

Anything Avoid Love Say Want You

A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

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