What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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