I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGDo 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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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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