Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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