Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry. - Erica Jong

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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Erica Jong

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. 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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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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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Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

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My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I'm deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who might have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live.

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Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now.

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Gore Vidal

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

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When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

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