I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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 is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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