In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGIf you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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