The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGShakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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