Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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