The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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