There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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