The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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