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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas,

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. – Erica Jong

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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that wont pay the Bergdorfs bill. I think Ill move to somewhere life is cheaper. – Erica Jong

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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. – Erica Jong

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I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s – I am 39 – lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks – thinner, drier skin. – Thandie Newton

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. – Menander

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To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. – Jose Bergamin

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One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. – Edward C. Steadman

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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. – Jane Smiley

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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. – Barney Frank

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