Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONGIf you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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