I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGI don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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