There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGReally true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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 by exhortation.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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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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