Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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