The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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