What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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