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.
ERICA JONGHumor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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