What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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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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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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