Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
ERICA JONGWhat was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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