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.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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