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 JONGJealousy is all the fun you think they had.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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