I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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