How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGJealousy is all the fun you think they had.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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