There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGMany 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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 truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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