The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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