"I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner."

-- Erica Jong

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“When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.”
“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.”
“It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.”
“I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.”
“A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.”

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“Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.”
“I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right.”
“The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.”

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