What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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