I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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 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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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