Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGI stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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