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.
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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