Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGMemory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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