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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

Erica Jong

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONG

Fear Need Ourselves Sufficient Unto Web
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Disaaperard Leave Memory Most Possession Star Trace Transient
I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Ever How Know Life Made Think Touch Understand
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Earth Every Feel Itself Know Orphan Soul
Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Alone Creativity Demand Enough Less Nothing Talent You
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
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
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
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 is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Book Box Brimimg Incendiary Match Material Reader Strike
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
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Able Cry Ever Experience Mist Must Stand Think Use Wonder
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

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