There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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