The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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