Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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