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
ERICA JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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