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
ERICA JONGYou see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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