Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONGEvery time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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