A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Solitude is un-American.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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