There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGI see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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