Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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