What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGReally true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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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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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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