It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Home is where your books are.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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