Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGThere is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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