Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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 stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Solitude is un-American.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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