Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONGBefore 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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