Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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