I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGIf we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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