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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. ↗

— Erica Jong

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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. ↗

— Erica Jong

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All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. ↗

— Erica Jong

#forebears #grandfather #living #mother #painted

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. ↗

— Erica Jong

#because #being #compared #detested #gossip

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. ↗

— Erica Jong

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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dash #dead #disguise #famous #feline

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#language #man #may #most #see

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#mischief #past #prospered #them #virtue

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#beast #brave #flatterer #groom #his

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

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