Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Home is where your books are.
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