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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Erica Jong

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
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Fear Need Ourselves Sufficient Unto Web
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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Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Alternate Country Create Hard Hate Myself One People Person Place Prizefighter Try Writer
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.
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Bottle Breast Child Cuddling Done Father Feeding Fondling May Mother Need Nobody Paediatric Succumb
Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONG

Far Fear Foolish Future Humankind Most
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONG

Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
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
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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Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
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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Firm First Follow Go Home Live Long Minute Porno Reaction Screw Ten
There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Against Always Backlash Idea Progressive
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Deal Humor Imposible Most One Series Situation Tool
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONG

Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONG

All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Anything Dilemma Even More One Risk

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