They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGThe truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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