The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGI do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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