Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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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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