We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONGYou are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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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. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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