There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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