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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Book Box Brimimg Incendiary Match Material Reader Strike
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
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
Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Curious Indication Most Photograph Reality
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Being Brave Crack Everything Fighting Live Risk Worth
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Being Every Excuse Judge Look Procrastinate Scare
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Flesh Learn Lesson Merely On Pass
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Any Courage Lead Life Take
The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Again Battel Depress Fight Heath Over Partly Right Win Women
Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Equivalent Existence Perception
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Despair Every Day Given Here Hillside House Lease Loan Me Minute Remember
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Advice Already Answer Ask Know Wish
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Act Both First Name Oneself Poet Revolutionary
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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Carry Momentum Own Word
The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Feel How Joy Much Pain Trick

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