I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONGAnd what if I don’t want forgiveness?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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