What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Solitude is un-American.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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