Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Home is where your books are.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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