A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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