And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
ERICA JONGJealousy is all the fun you think they had.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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