Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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