Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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 am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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