"Keeping a journal implies hope."

--

Erica Jong

#Journal Quotes

“Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.”
“Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.”
“To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.”
“I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.”
“With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them every day. You can concentrate wholly on the story and characters.”
“Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot about his time. But his book is uniquely bad.”

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“It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.”
“Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.”

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