There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGDon’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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